Easy to match what others do,
Perform the feat as well as they;
Hard to outdo the wise, the true,
And find a loftier way.
The school decays, the learning spoils,
Because of the sons of wine: ā
How snatch the stripling from their toils?
Yet can one ray of truth divine
The banquet's blaze outshine.
Perform the feat as well as they;
Hard to outdo the wise, the true,
And find a loftier way.
The school decays, the learning spoils,
Because of the sons of wine: ā
How snatch the stripling from their toils?
Yet can one ray of truth divine
The banquet's blaze outshine.