Exhaustion

Dreamless Sleep

To bed and rest
After logging the hours
Toiling under the whip
Sweating the day away
To make a minimal wage

To Bed and Respite
Waking instantly,
or seemingly so,
Moments after you lay yourself down

To bed, to the arms of Morpheus
and not to dream
of better things
is a cheat

Ex*haus"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. exhaustion.]

1.

The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

2.

The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

3. Math.

An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.

⇒ The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus.

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