Absence of occupation is not rest.
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.