Shame On The Body For Breaking Down

Every Age Has A Kind Of Universal Genius, Which Inclines Those That Live In It To Some Particular Studies.

When Beauty Fires The Blood, How Love Exalts The Mind!

If Passion Rules, How Weak Does Reason Prove!

At Home The Hateful Names Of Parties Cease, And Factious Souls Are Wearied Into Peace.

Fortune's Unjust; She Ruins Oft The Brave, And Him Who Should Be Victor, Makes The Slave.