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Man's heart the' Almighty to the future sets,
By secret and inviolable springs;
And makes his hope his sublunary joy.
Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still:
“More, more!” the glutton cries: for something new
So rages Appetite, if man can't mount,
He will descend. He starves on the possess'd.
Hence, the world's master, from Ambition's spire,
In Caprea plunged, and dived beneath the brute.
In that rank sty why wallow'd Empire's son
Supreme? Because he could no higher fly;
His riot was Ambition in despair.