I grant preferment, honour, place,
Are rising steps to happiness;
But whilst we’re upwards thus aspiring,
We’re anxious still, and still desiring.
To act with an unbounded will,
Can only our desires fulfil;
Whence, the highest bliss, in my opinion,
Must be in power and dominion.”
Thus all their various sense exprest,
And each advis’d what he thought best: