Imprisoned 'mid the formal props

Of restless ownership!

Ye trees, that may[276] to-morrow fall

To feed the insatiate Prodigal![277]

Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields,

All that the fertile valley shields;[278]

Wages of folly—baits of crime,

Of life's uneasy game the stake,

Playthings that keep the eyes awake

Of drowsy, dotard Time;—