For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
In solitude, when we are least alone.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!
In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.
And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.