Your passive faculties. He from the toils 400

And troubles of the day to heavier toil

Retires, whom trembling from the tower that rocks

Amid the clouds, or Calpe’s hideous height,

The busy dæmons hurl, or in the main

O’erwhelm, or bury struggling under ground. 405

Not all a monarch’s luxury the woes

Can counterpoise, of that most wretched man,

Whose nights are shaken with the frantic fits

Of wild Orestes; whose delirious brain,