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Rh Houses that spill with more than they can hold,

More than is best for man. Be man's what must

Keep harm off, so that in himself he find

Sufficiency—the well-endowed of mind!

For there's no bulwark in man's wealth to him

Who, through a surfeit, kicks—into the dim

And disappearing—Right's great altar.

Yes—

It urges him, the sad persuasiveness,

Até's insufferable child that schemes

Treason beforehand: and all cure is vain.

It is not hidden: out it glares again,

A light dread-lamping-mischief, just as gleams

The badness of the bronze;