By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?