Careful Words

slumbering (?.)

Such souls,

Whose sudden visitations daze the world,

Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind

A voice that in the distance far away

Wakens the slumbering ages.

Sir Henry Taylor (1800-18—): Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 7.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,

In rayless majesty, now stretches forth

Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night thoughts. Night i. Line 18.