Its proper essence, trifled malapert

With accidents instead—good things assigned

As heralds of a better thing behind—

And, worthy through display of these, put forth

Never the inmost all-surpassing worth

That constitutes him king precisely since

As yet no other spirit may evince

Its like: the power he took most pride to test,

Whereby all forms of life had been professed

At pleasure, forms already on the earth,