Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Time elaborately thrown away.