The man who boasts of wealth
& the man with none to boast
No matter — if theyre lost to health
Have nothing at the most
They plod their weary round
As the present leaves the past
& very little plots of ground
Supplys een pride at last

The summer lovely beauty wears
Winters chill to see
One tells young blossoms what they are
One what the old must be
Youth sees by autums fading joys
How long its hopes will last
While winter that young hope destroys
Sighs — frowns & all is past

The happy boys are up by times at morn
Brushing the dewdrops from the leafing thorn
As thro the thickets tangling depths they hie
Some early nest & new blown flower to spy.

Happy those eyes that, every dawn, can see
A face so fair! Who's drunk with wine may be
Sober by midnight: but who this way slakes
His thirst, is drunk till Judgment-Morning breaks.

Ill-looking people you may roughly handle
When they shall come between you and the candle,
But, if it be a smiling, sweet-lipped Miss,
Put out the lamp, and catch her sleeve, and kiss.

He who with favour by Kings is named
For the faults he shows he shall never be shamed;
And he that is thrust from the princely grace
There is none to praise him in all the place.

What Zal once said to Rustum dost thou know?
" Think none contemptible who is thy foe!
At fountain-head the rillet trickles small
Which lower, drowns the camel, load and all. "

A tree that to-day its first twig shoots
The hand of a little one lightly uproots,
But if, for a season, ye shall delay,
Oxen and cords will not drag it away:
With a straw ye can stop the springs, which drown
The lordly elephants lower down

Love is a dreamer full of happy things
& joys for which words have no utterings
Illusions which the heart must ever prize
A beauty shade that neither lives nor dies

Where eer the present leads us there we spy
The past in mourning — how can memory die
Where every foot we set or look we give
Meets some crushed memory that hath ceased to live
So busy hath death been in mortal strife
Earth ever fattens with the wrecks of life