CAXTO IT. OF GOOD AND EVIL. 139 



While mad with foolish fame, or drunk with power, 

 Ambition slays his thousands in an hour; 

 Demoniac Envy scowls with haggard mien, 

 And blights the bloom of other's joys, unseen; 

 Or wrathful Jealousy invades the grove, 

 And turns to night meridian beams of Love \ 



" Here wide o'er earth impetuous waters sweep, 

 And fields and forests rush into the deep; 110 



Or dread Volcano with explosion dire 

 Involves the mountains in a flood of fire; 

 Or yawning Earth with closing jaws inhumes 

 Unwarned nations, living in their tombs; 

 Or Famine seizes with her tiger-paw, 

 And swallows millions with unsated maw, 



" There livid Pestilence in league with Dearth 

 Walks forth malignant o'er the shuddering earth, 



