The meanest slave dares then Lorenzo scorn?
The meanest slave thy sovereign glory shares. 550
Proud youth! fastidious of the lower world!
Man’s lawful pride includes humility;
Stoops to the lowest; is too great to find
Inferiors; all immortal! brothers all!
Proprietors eternal of thy love.
Immortal! What can strike the sense so strong,
As this the soul? It thunders to the thought;
Reason amazes; gratitude o’erwhelms; 558