“Dost thou, O wretch, resist his pow’r,

“And all his beams defy?

VI.

“Unlike to thee, ingrate, behold

“The Sun-flow’r drinks his light;

“Lives, to his radiance ever true,

“And with him sinks to night.

VII.

“But like some faithless fav’rite you,

“Or some more faithless fair;