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

For Thee I Dim These Eye And Stuff This Head With All Such Reading As Was Never Read.

Genius Creates, And Taste Preserves.

First Follow Nature, And Your Judgment Frame By Her Just Standard, Which Is Still The Same: Unerring Nature, Still Divinely Bright, One Clear, Unchanged, And Universal Light, Life, Force, And Beauty Must To All Impart, At Once The Source, And End, And Test Of Art.

Though Triumphs Were To Generals Only Due, Crowns Were Reserved To Grace The Soldiers Too.

For Wit And Judgment Often Are At Strife, Though Meant Each Other's Aid, Like Man And Wife.