| Index Entry | Hail! downy sleep, sure emblem of the dead [fl] |
| Location | Boston |
| Citation | BPB.775.005 30 Jan-6 Feb 1775:41 (911) The following beautiful address to sleep, with the three attempts at a translation into English, may serve to fill up a corner of your next, if not pre-engaged by politics, Your's, [signed] Clio. [verse follows in Latin] TO SLEEP. Hail! downy sleep, sure emblem of the dead, Welcome, the friendly partner of my bed; Come grateful slumbers; oh! what bliss to lye, Dead, thus alive! and living thus to die! [2 other attempts at translation follow.] |
| Generic Title | Boston Post Boy |
| Date | 1775.02.06 |
| Publisher | Mills and Hicks |
| City, State | Boston, MA |
| Year | 1775 |
| Bibliography | B0012148 |