Of Coach or Cart, or Smoaky Link-Boys call
Is heard; but Universal Silence Reigns:
When we in Merry Plight, Airy and Gay,
Surpriz’d to find the Hour so swiftly flie,
With hasty knock, or Twang of Pendant Cord
Alarm the Drowsy Youth from slumb’ring Nod;
Startled he flies, and stumbles o’er the Stairs
Erroneous, and with busie Knuckles plies
His yet clung Eyelids, and with stagg’ring Reel
Enters Confus’d, and Mutt’ring asks our Wills;