The _Mind_ is ever wakeful,--when the _spirits_ Grow weary, Nature calls for _their_ repose: And thus our animal-being slumbers nightly.-- But the Mind moves in its eternal course, Thought following thought, by the association Which govern'd them by day: but (like a King Throned, with his vassals slumbering by his side) Its Counsellors are gone;--Perception's messengers Lie mute before their Monarch,--whose mistake Leads to such a labyrinth of errors, That bright Aurora, with her threads of light, Must be its Ariadne, or 'tis lost![13] When the fleshy walls of this human citadel Are in repose, or apparent slumber,-- Still the faithful sentinel of the brain,-- The Mind,--is watchful through all space and time! Like th' immortal Soul, in the Sleep of Death![14] [13] MS. Tragedy, "The Bride of Damascus." [14] MS. Tragedy, "Tecumseh." Alexander awoke, and beheld before him, waiting his time of slumber, Hephæstion, and the War-Council. They informed him that the preparations were ready for another attack; they also announced the growing discontent of the entire camp; that the spirits of the soldiery were already depressed, from their tedious and useless hardships; that the cavalry loudly murmured from their total inutility through the present service: they also forced upon him the reflection, that his reputation might be injured, if the future assault upon the walls should again prove ineffectual; and that every gloom cast over the Macedonians, was a just cause to renew and continue the brilliant bravery of the Tyrians. The King of Macedonia listened with unwonted placidity to the remarks and covert advice from his Council, and in reply told them,--_that Tyrus would be captured within two days_,--that in a Vision of the present night it was revealed to him that the Island would be defenceless within that time! The Council returned to the camp, where, the omen contained in the reported Vision in Mount Lebanon aroused their superstition and renewed their courage; which Religious and warlike feelings were increased seven-fold when, upon Alexander's return to the camp, it was announced that some Tyrians (captured in the galleys) had stated that the "morrow" was to be the great National festival to Apollo!--and during which ceremony--Alexander reasoned--the Island-Capital would be in a manner defenceless! It must have been at this discovery that the vain Macedonian imagined he was descended from Apollo, having for the time being cast aside his former claim to be the son of Jupiter.