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,