A pamper’d carcase on the worms bestows,

Who, rioting on the unusual chear,

As good a life enjoy, as he could boast of here.

42. A Nocturnal Reverie

In such a night, when every louder wind

Is to its distant cavern safe confin’d;

And only gentle Zephyr fans his wings,

And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings;

Or from some tree, fam’d for the owl’s delight,

She, hollowing clear, directs the wand’rers right: