a sensible man. For riches do not protect the man who in wantonness has kicked the mighty altar of Justice into obscurity. ChorusPerverse Temptation, the overmastering child of designing Destruction, drives men on; and every remedy is futile. His evil is not hidden; it shines forth, a baleful gleam.Like base metal beneath the touchstone’s rub, when tested he shows the blackness of his grain (for he is like a child who chases a winged bird)