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Original source?
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What is the original source of:
How sweet to sleep where all is
peace;
where sorrows cannot reach the
breast;
where all life's idle throbbings
cease;
and pain is lulled to rest.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Don't know the answer to this one. I know it has been used as an epitaph since at least 1890. I've been through the Oxford library of English poetry and found no occurrences of it, presuming of course that "How sweet to sleep where all is peace" is the first line of a poem. It could of course be a small part of a much larger poem.