Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.
And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.