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For whoso lives, as I, in many woes,

How can it be but death shall bring him gain?

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Happy are they who know not the taste of evil.

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

For God hates utterly

The bray of bragging tongues.

What, however, is my fault? Unless to have played can be called a fault, unless it can be called a fault to have loved.

A creature of a more exalted kind

Was wanting yet, and then was Man designed;

Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast,

For empire formed, and fit to rule the rest.

He is beautiful even to enemy eyes.

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

O mortals, from your fellows' blood abstain,

Nor taint your bodies with a food profane:

While corn, and pulse by Nature are bestow'd,

And planted orchards bend their willing load;

While labour'd gardens wholesom herbs produce,

And teeming vines afford their gen'rous juice;

Nor tardier fruits of cruder kind are lost,

But tam'd with fire, or mellow'd by the frost;

While kine to pails distended udders bring,

And bees their hony redolent of Spring;

While Earth not only can your needs supply,

But, lavish of her store, provides for luxury;

A guiltless feast administers with ease,

And without blood is prodigal to please.

Pointing to a pile of dust, that had collected, I foolishly begged to have as many anniversaries of my birth, as were represented by the dust. But I forgot to ask that the years should be accompanied by youth.