But if a sluggard and a coward, then

To rove all wretched in the glooms of night,

Misled by Chepian, a poor wandering ghost,—

In swamps and fens and bogs and brambles lost.

XXIX.

“And now, my brother, rightly worship we,

When to Cawtantowit we make our prayer?

Or when for help to Chepian we flee,

And pray that us from every harm he spare?

For every harm is all his own, we see,