And is—or he appears to be—obeyed. 130
An intermediate State, when stopt the Breath,
We make a kind of Compromise with Death:
His is the Body, that he needs must have;
But all is Life on this side of the Grave—
As if alive, with Care we tend his Bed
And bear him off, as if he felt us tread.
With sad slow Pomp the Crowd behold him come }
And laid discreetly in his vaulted Home, }
O’er which, his Worth inscribed, shall rise the stately Tomb. }