Luxurious Lobster-nights, Farewell, For Sober, Studious Days!

These Riches Are Possess'd, But Not Enjoy'd!

Slave To No Sect, Who Takes No Private Road, But Looks Through Nature Up To Nature's God.

That Character In Conversation Which Commonly Passes For Agreeable Is Made Up Of Civility And Falsehood.

Sure Of Their Qualities And Demanding Praise, More Go To Ruined Fortunes Than Are Raised.

Thus Unlamented Pass The Proud Away, The Gaze Of Fools And Pageant Of A Day; So Perish All, Whose Breast Ne'er Learn'd To Glow For Others' Good, Or Melt At Others' Woe.