How camest thou companion for the swine?

I loathed the courts of heaven, the choir divine.

III.

Who bade thee crouch in hovel dark and drear?

I left a palace wide to sojourn here.

IV.

Harsh tyrant’s slave who made thee, once so free?

A father’s rule too heavy seemed to me.

V.

What sordid rags hang round thee on the breeze?