I Sat and Stared Into the Yellow Tapers

"I awoke not with the pleasant drowsiness which marks refreshment, but wide and staring. And my black phrygian hair, without the cause of sight or sound, stood stiff upon my head." "For here and there was moving, something unseen, unheard, unfelt by outer senses," he said. 'And now a strange thing had happened, and surely all the unrest was gone' He went on to say that his daughter Isabel slept so wondrously still she looked just as one might look over her aright some long enigma and find relief from some hard problem.