The Most Positive Men Are The Most

But Honest Instinct Comes A Volunteer; Sure Never To O'er-shoot, But Just To Hit, While Still Too Wide Or Short In Human Wit.

In Vain Sedate Reflections We Would Make When Half Our Knowledge We Must Snatch, Not Take.

Men Must Be Taught As If You Taught Them Not, And Things Unknown Proposed As Things Forgot.

Whether The Darken'd Room To Muse Invite, Or Whiten'd Wall Provoke The Skew'r To Write; In Durance, Exile, Bedlam, Or The Mint, Like Lee Or Budgel I Will Rhyme And Print.

Pleased To The Last, He Crops The Flowery Food, And Licks The Hand Just Raised To Shed His Blood.