1. A moment's pleasure came your way, so you seized it,
Unconcerned by disgrace however intense.

2. You bought what passes for the steepest price,
Why not immortality at the cheapest cost?

3. You bared yourself carousing till you lost all piety,
A strange thing for a body so full of vice.

4. Poetry's drafts do not last, though they pretend to,
Even if clad in the drapery of every poem.