Tennyson.

O’er each vain eye oblivious pinions wave,

And quench’d existence crouches in a grave.

What better name may Slumber’s bed become?

Night’s Sepulcher, the universal Home,

Where Weakness, Strength, Vice, Virtue, sunk supine,

Alike in naked helplessness recline;

Glad for a while to heave unconscious breath,

Yet wake to wrestle with the dread of death,

And shun, though day but dawns on ills increased,