And with this sole aim covets power,

That he may use it ill.

How few live out their fated span!640

Whom yesternight saw radiant

With joy, the newborn day beholds

In wretched case. How rare it is

To find old age and happiness

Combined. More soft than Tyrian couch,

The greensward soothes to fearless sleep;645

But gilded ceilings break our rest,