From Art more various are the blessings sent;
Wealth, splendors, honour, liberty, content:
Yet these each other's power so strong contest,
That either seems destructive of the rest.
Hence every state to one lov'd blessing prone,
Conforms and models life to that alone.
Each to the favourite happiness attends,
And spurns the plan that aims at other ends;
'Till, carried to excess in each domain,
This favourite good begets peculiar pain.