Yet wiser such, than he whom blank despair + 

And fostered grief’s ungainful toil enslave; + 

Lodged in whose furrowed brow thrives fretful care, + 

Sour graft of blighted hope; who, when the wave + 

Of evil rushes, yields⁠—yet claims to rave + 

At his own deed, as the stern will of heaven. + 

In sooth against his Maker idly brave, + 

Whom e’en the creature-world has tossed and driven, + 

Cursing the life he mars, “a boon so kindly given.” + 