Unhappy Dives! in an evil hour <br />'Gainst Nature's voice seduced to deeds accurst! <br />Once Fortune's minion, now thou feel'st her power; <br />Wrath's vial on thy lofty head bath burst. <br />In Wit, in Genius, as in Wealth the first, <br />How wondrous bright thy blooming morn arose! <br />But thou went smitten with th' unhallow'd thirst <br />Of crime un-named, and thy sad noon must close <br />In scorn, and solitude unsought, the worst of woes.<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-dives-a-fragment/
