Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
Women hate a debt as men a gift.
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.