Great in his life, but greater in his end;

}

{ That sure, like Xenophon, you meant to shew

{ Not what they are, but what they ought to do;

{ At once a poet, and instructor too.

}

{ The parts so managed, as if each were thine;

{ Thou draw'st both ore and metal from the mine;

{ And, to be seen, thou mak'st even vice to shine:

As if, like Siam's transmigrating god,