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DEMONOLOGY.

NIGHT-DREAMS trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day,

And thy fortunes as they fall

The bias of thy will betray.

In the chamber, on the stairs,

Lurking dumb,

Go and come

Lemurs and Lars.

DEMONOLOGY.1

THE name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic, and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry, and deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him. They also shed light on our structure.

The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth the empire of our lives. This soft enchantress visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea, and wide intervals of time:

"There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!
What an unreal and fantastic world

Is going on below!

Within the sweep of yon encircling wall

How many a large creation of the night,

Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,

Peopled with busy, transitory groups,

Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd."

1 From the course of lectures on "Human Life," read in Boston, 1839-40. Published in the North American Review,

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