The Heart-sick Faintness Of The Hope Delayed!

Now, It Is Well Known, That A Man May With More Impunity Be Guilty Of An Actual Breach Either Of Real Good Breeding Or Of Good Morals, Than Appear Ignorant Of The Most Minute Point Of Fashionable Etiquette.

Then Hush Thee, My Darling, Take Rest While You May, For Strife Comes With Manhood, And Waking With Day.

Dear To Me Is My Bonnie White Steed; Oft Has He Helped Me At Pinch Of Need.

Where Lives The Man That Has Not Tried How Mirth Can Into Folly Glide, And Folly Into Sin!

Many A Law, Many A Commandment Have I Broken, But My Word Never.