Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends