Emblem of death! as is its couch, the grave,
Doom’d to contain the coward and the brave;
Where sleep reclin’d, the guilty and the pure,
Alike intomb’d – sequester’d and secure;
Reserv’d alike in that dread hour to wake,
Destin’d to stand – and each their destine take.
Peace to the last – while judgement marks the first,
Ere yet arraign’d – accursing, and accurst.
Rais’d from their bed, to wrap in sleep no more,
Reviv’d they gaze, and horribly adore.
Oh, fatal sleep! that thus awak’d to woe,
No longer ease – no longer rest shall know!
E’en here a foretaste of that keener steel,
That living fools have mock’d, and dying fools must feel.
(E P)
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