This is the age of oddities let loose.

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.