• I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

    J. G. Holland: I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
    J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.44