id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9209 Hawthorne, Nathaniel The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") .txt text/plain 1803 74 73 your dream in full convocation round your bed, and catch one broad The distant sound of a church-clock is borne faintly on If you could choose an hour of wakefulness out of the whole night, it thought, with the mind's eye half shut, and two in pleasant dreams, and appears so distant, that the plunge out of a warm bed into the that each pane presents something like a frozen dream. You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive funeral train comes gliding by your bed, in which Passion and Feeling assume bodily shape, and things of the mind become dire spectres to conscious sleep, and gazing wildly round the bed, as if the fiends scene is gone, though its image remains an instant in your mind's eye, sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in ./cache/9209.txt ./txt/9209.txt