MARY MOODY EMERSON 371 SAMUEL HOAR 405 THOREAU 419 CARLYLE 453 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.” ’Tis superfluous to think of the dreams of multitudes, the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should resign so quietly this deifying Reason, and become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us in merry and mad confusion; a delicate creation outdoing the prime and flower of actual nature, antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures. Sometimes the forgotten companions of childhood reappear:-- “They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead, As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday:”--