And These Gems Of Heav'n, Her Starry

And Feel By Turns The Bitter Change Of Fierce Extremes, Extremes By Change More Fierce.

How Oft, In Nations Gone Corrupt, And By Their Own Devices Brought Down To Servitude, That Man Chooses Bondage Before Liberty. Bondage With Ease Before Strenuous Liberty.

God Has Set Labor And Rest, As Day And Night To Men Successive.

Earth Felt The Wound; And Nature From Her Seat, Sighing Through All Her Works, Gave Signs Of Woe That All Was Lost.

It Was The Winter Wild, While The Heaven-born Child, All Meanly Wrapt In The Rude Manger Lies.