What have I gained by health? Intolerable dullness. What by mode meals? A total blank.
I am in love with the green earth.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.
Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.