The same wild fury acts the will

In different ways, with different skill.

A starving Kite, upon a bar

(Worn out with long fatigues of war),

Whose pointed claws, and hooked bill,

Shew’d his profession was to kill,

Thus grieving spoke in doleful strain:

(Your heart will pity and disdain)—

“How blind is everything on earth!

And how injurious to my worth!