Like him who fill’d the eastern throne,

To whom the Watcher cried aloud;

That royal wretch of Babylon,

Who was so guilty and so proud.

Like him, with haughty, stubborn mind,

I, in my state, my comforts sought;

Delight and praise I hoped to find,

In what I builded, planted! bought!

Oh! arrogance! by misery taught -

Soon came a voice! I felt it come;