Which reads like envy. Such, however, it can’t be.
Put not, in heart, construction that must disagree
Upon those words so read: “to other after me.”
He saw a thousand dangers in the sway conferred;
Saw that earth’s empire is a snare to be abhorred;365
A danger to one’s life, one’s faith, one’s inner self;
Such trial has no equal on the whole world’s shelf.
E’en Solomon sagacity did much require,
To shield him from mistakes in all his vast empire.
The wondrous power he wielded could alone suffice,