More wretched for the clemencies of heav'n?
Night Second.
While I had a general recollection of this passage on my mind, there were a number of its particular expressions very frequently in my memory. When I thought on the past dangers I had come through, and looked at our present hazardous situation, the words
——"hair-hung, breeze-shaken, o'er the gulf
A moment trembles,"——
strongly impressed my mind with a sense of the critical nature of human life in general, and of such a situation as I was now in, in particular; and the words,
——"and yet he sleeps,
As the storm rock'd to rest"——
with the folly of being careless and unconcerned, in such a situation; and when I thought on the misimprovement of past time, the words,
——"O for yesterdays to come!"