Wide awake in the dark they stare,

Filling with phantoms the vacant air,

As if that Crookback'd Tyrant Care

Had plotted to kill them sleeping.

CLXXXVI.

And oh! when the blessed diurnal light

Is quench'd by the providential night,

To render our slumber more certain!

Pity, pity the wretches that weep,

For they must be wretched, who cannot sleep