Classic Poem

A. While prudence guides, change not, at any rate,
A life of freedom for the married state:
I ventur'd once to play that desperate game,
And therefore warn you, not to do the same.
B. The counsel may be sage which you advance;
But I'm resolv'd to take the common chance.
A. Mild gales attend that voyage of your life,
And waft you safely thro' the sea of strife:
Not the dire Libyan, or Ægaean sea,
Where out of thirty ships scarce perish three;
But that, where daring fools most dearly pay,
Where all that sail are surely cast away.