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Poets and philosophers have imagined childhood as an awakening from the sleep before life, or the sleep between lives.<\/p>\n
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Some see it as a transitional phase between the sleep of non-existence and the waking sleep of modern life.<\/p>\n

I love the way William Wordsworth put it:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: <\/span><\/p>\n

The Soul that rises with us, our life\u2019s Star, <\/span><\/p>\n

Hath had elsewhere its setting, <\/span><\/p>\n

And cometh from afar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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