[219]Sleep, Death’s half-brother: sons of gloomy Night
There hold they habitation, Death and Sleep;
Dread deities: [220]nor them the shining Sun
E’er with his beam contemplates, when he climbs
The cope of heaven, or when from heaven descends.
Of these the one glides gentle o’er the space
Of earth and broad expanse of ocean waves,
Placid to man. The other has a heart
Of iron; yea, the heart within his breast
Is brass, unpitying: whom of men he grasps