Less must they have than an appointed sum,
And freemen been, or hither must not come;
They should be decent and command respect
(Though needing fortune,) whom these doors protect,
And should for thirty dismal years have tried
For peace unfelt and competence denied.
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Strange, that o'er men thus train'd in sorrow's school,
Power must be held, and they must live by rule!
Infirm, corrected by misfortunes, old,