And portly tyrants3 dyed with crime
Change, in the transformation4 scene,
At Christmas, in the pantomime,
Instanter, at the prompter’s cough,
The fairy bonnets5 them, and they
Throw their abhorred6 carbuncles off
And blossom like the flowers in May.
— So mankind, to angelic eyes,
So, through the scenes of life below,
In life’s ironical7 disguise,
A travesty8 of man, ye go:
But fear not: ere the curtain fall,
Death in the transformation scene
Steps forward from her pedestal,
Apparent, as the fairy Queen;
And coming, frees you in a trice
From all your lendings — lust9 of fame,
Ungainly virtue10, ugly vice11,
Terror and tyranny and shame.
So each, at last himself, for good
In that dear country lays him down,
At last beloved and understood
And pure in feature and renown12.

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