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The speaker is talking directly to people who are full of themselves-"pompous" and "symbolton" suggests empty or pretentious showiness. They're described as "walking flesh," just ordinary people, but they act as if they're above everyone else-hence the line, "Why do you look down one's nose?" Then, the poem questions if they're really greater than the divine-challenging their inflated self-view. There's a warning that this pride will be their undoing-"fan the flame for your own downfall." The speaker says, "false humility," meaning they don't have true humility but just wear a mask of it-so their pride is heavy, a burden that will take ages to lose. The poem then ties this arrogance to emptiness-like a "bottle of rot gut spirit," meaning it intoxicates and destroys their sense. In short, pride blinds them-stopping them from seeing reality-and the speaker hopes, harshly, that one day they gain wisdom, even if it takes a painful process. So, it's really a call to self-awareness, to shed false pride, and to embrace true humility.