I am a softener of pain, a procurer of sleep, and an Arnold of the night. I am the fr

I am a softener of pain, a procurer of sleep, and an Arnold of the night. I am the friend of the lonely and the weary. I keep watch over the poles of the earth, and guard the soft core of the waters. I have looked down upon the fields of Marathon, and upon the fields of Waterloo. I have seen the out going of the first great armaments, and the coming in of the last. I have watched through the ages from the beginning. I am young among the young, and old among the old. I have been keeper of the secrets of the world, and a witness of its soft sorrow from the first soft sorrow to the last. I am the keeper of time, and a comrade of eternity. I am the friend of all who go