A Life Of Ease Is A Difficult

O, Popular Applause! What Heart Of Man Is Proof Against Thy Sweet, Seducing Charms?

But Conversation, Choose What Theme We May, And Chiefly When Religion Leads The Way, Should Flow, Like Waters After Summer Show'rs, Not As If Raised By Mere Mechanic Powers.

It Chills My Blood To Hear The Blest Supreme Rudely Appealed To On Each Trifling Theme.

There Is A Pleasure In Poetic Pains / Which Only Poets Know.

Judge Not The Lord By Feeble Sense, But Trust Him For His Grace; Behind A Frowning Providence He Hides A Smiling Face.