Men? say you have the power
To make them yours, rule men, throughout life's little hour,
According to the phrase: what follows?
Men, you make,
By ruling them, your own; each man for his own sake
Accepts you as his guide, avails him of what worth
He apprehends in you to sublimate his earth
With fire; content, if so you convey him through night,
That you shall play the sun, and he, the satellite,
Pilfer your light and heat and virtue, starry pelf,