No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.