To Dives. A Fragment
- 1UNHAPPY Dives! in an evil hour
- 2'Gainst Nature's voice seduced to deeds accurst!
- 3Once Fortune's minion now thou feel'st her power;
- 4Wrath's vial on thy lofty head hath burst.
- 5In Wit, in Genius, as in Wealth the first,
- 6How wondrous bright thy blooming morn arose!
- 7But thou wert smitten with th' unhallowed thirst
- 8Of Crime unnamed, and thy sad noon must close
- 9In scorn and solitude unsought the worst of woes.