What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.