Condition, Circumstance, Is Not The Thing; Bliss

To Teach Vain Wits That Science Little Known, T' Admire Superior Sense, And Doubt Their Own!

Choose A Firm Cloud Before It Fall, And In It Catch, Ere She Change, The Cynthia Of This Minute.

Chiefs Who No More In Bloody Fights Engage, But Wise Through Time, And Narrative With Age, In Summer-days Like Grasshoppers Rejoice - A Bloodless Race, That Send A Feeble Voice.

Pleas'd Look Forward, Pleas'd To Look Behind,and Count Each Birthday With A Grateful Mind.

Those Oft Are Stratagems Which Errors Seem Nor Is It Homer Nods, But We That Dream.