Nor long the appetite withstood.
With treble anguish now they moan
A wide destroyer on their throne,
Despairing drag the galling chain,
And vainly curse Columbo’s reign.
This fatal change let man informed pursue,
Catch rising truths from every fabled view,
And learn from hence no dang’rous pow’r to trust,
E’en with the wise, the gentle, and the just.
Since e’en that pow’r less prompts to good than ill,