To Adore The Conqueror, Who Now Beholds

How Oft, In Nations Gone Corrupt, And By Their Own Devices Brought Down To Servitude, That Man Chooses Bondage Before Liberty. Bondage With Ease Before Strenuous Liberty.

The First And Wisest Of Them All Professed To Know This Only, That He Nothing Knew.

In God's Intention, A Meet And Happy Conversation Is The Chiefest And Noblest End Of Marriage.

With Cowslips Wan That Hang The Pensive Head, And Every Flower That Sad Embroidery Wears.

Above The Smoke And Stir Of This Dim Spot Which Men Call Earth.