Word: morpheus
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...morning hours especially. Shortly after the zero hour, so it seems to the startled sleepers, the night stillness is shattered by bravely blown reveille. The dreaming student is restored to full consciousness without lingering in any of the intermediate stages. The damage done, he turns over and waits for Morpheus to repair it, but very soon the trembling of the bed and the rattling of the windows as the ensigns double past below drives sleep away again. Mumbling an earnest prayer or so for the future bliss of the disturbers the victim begins to go to sleep once more, whereupon...
Dreaming 'neath the wings of Morpheus...
...vicinity are passing through the yard, now swimming some Hellespont only to find that his Hero has gone sailing with a Sophomore, - her hero ! - to see the man who, on principle, never gets excited and never swears, dividing his night in the tent into three-minute intervals of courting Morpheus and of attending the obsequies of sundry mosquitoes...