I dwell with the miser, but not with his gold:
And sometimes I stand in his chimney so cold,
Though I serve as a part of the fire.
"I often am met in political life:
In my absence no kingdom can be.
And they say there can neither be friendship nor strife,
No one can live single, no one take a wife,
Without interfering with me.
"My brethren are many; and of my whole race
Not one is more slender and tall: