That poison lurks—I speak what I do know.
Ill fortune is to be preferred to good.
For since my palace does not threatening stand455
In pride upon some lofty mountain top,
The people fear me not; my towering roofs
Gleam not with ivory, nor do I need
A watchful guard to keep me while I sleep.
I do not fish with fleets, nor drive the sea
With massive dykes back from its natural shore;460
I do not gorge me at the world's expense;