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"I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos your garment alive with your song I lie in your soothing arms, lord Hypnos
Steep the spiral to your far abode,
How I have searched
So, find me in these grandiose halls
Hypnagonia's lucid horizons
"Lord Hypnos" by In Flames
"To Hypnos, Fumigation from Poppies. Hypnos, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, sovereign of all, sustained by mother earth For thy dominion is supreme alone, over all extended, and by all things known. �Tis thine all bodies with benignant mind in other bands than those of brass to bind. Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, and from whom sacred solace in affliction flows. Thy pleasing gentle chains preserve the soul, and even the dreadful cares of death control For Thanatos, and Lethe (Forgetfulness) with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem. With favouring aspect to my prayer incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine."
Orphic Hymn 85 to Hypnos. Source: Theoi.com
"O youthful Somnus (Sleep), gentlest of the gods, by what crime or error of mine have I deserved that I alone should lack thy bounty? Silent are all the cattle, and the wild beasts and the birds, and the curved mountain summits have the semblance of weary slumber, nor do the raging torrents roar as they were wont The ruffled waves have sunk to rest, and the sea leans against earth�s bosom and is still. Seven times now hath the returning moon beheld my fixed and ailing eyes So often have the lights of Oeta and Paphos revisited me, so oft hath Tithonia passed by my groans, and pitying sprinkled me with her cool whip. Ah! how may I endure? Not if I had the thousand eyes of sacred Argus, which he kept but in alternate watchfulness, nor even waked in all his frame at once. But now--ah, me! - if some lover through the long hours of night is clasping a girl�s entwining arms, and of his own will drives thee from him, come thence, O Somnus! Nor do I bid thee shower all the influence of thy wings upon my eyes--that be the prayer of happier folk!--touch me but with thy wand�s extremest tip--�tis enough--or pass over me with lightly hovering step."
Statius, Silvae 5. 4. 1: Prayer of an insomniac to Somnus the god of Sleep. Source: Theoi.com
"The night wind runs its hands through my hair. I feel myself falling, slipping. You touch me, embrace me. Broken, toiling body pulls itself together. Broken, panicked mind pulls itself together. Your sons take me to worlds that cannot be seen. Set me free, Hypnos, Somnus, Sopor. I welcome the waters of Lethe. I welcome the soft darkness. Set me free."
Set Me Free, original devotion.
"Ooh... Ooh...
Oh sleep
Oh sleep
Sleep
Sleep satisfies
Fall asleep
Fall asleep
Sleep
Sleep satisfies
Lyrics for Chinese Sleep Chant by Coldplay
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