More than creation labours!—Labours more?

And is there in creation, what, amidst

This tumult universal, wing'd despatch,

And ardent energy, supinely yawns?—

Man sleeps; and Man alone; and Man whose fate,

Fate irreversible, entire, extreme,

Endless, hair-hung, breeze-shaken, o'er the gulf

A moment trembles; drops! and Man for whom

All else is in alarm! Man, the sole cause

Of this surrounding storm! and yet he sleeps,