Meet for monarch's pride and pleasure: this is truth—a thought has fired you,

Made you fain to give some cramped concept expansion,

Put your faculty to proof, fulfil your nature's task.

First you fascinate the monarch's self: he fancies

He it was devised the scheme you execute as he inspired you:

He in turn sets slaving insignificances

Toiling, moiling till your structure stands there—all you ask!

"Soon the monarch 's known for what he was—a ninny:

Soon the rabble-rout leave labor, take their work-day wage and vanish:

Soon the late puffed bladder, pricked, shows lank and skinny—