A Mighty Maze! But Not Without A

Be Not The First By Whom The New Are Tried, Nor Yet The Last To Lay The Old Aside.

How Instinct Varies In The Grov'ling Swine.

True Ease In Writing Comes From Art, Not Chance, As Those Move Easiest Who Have Learned To Dance.

Thus God And Nature Linked The Gen'ral Frame, And Bade Self-love And Social Be The Same.

Self-love, The Spring Of Motion, Acts The Soul; Reason's Comparing Balance Rules The Whole. Man, But For That No Action Could Attend, And, But For This, Were Active To No End: Fix'd Like A Plant On His Peculiar Spot, To Draw Nutrition, Propagate, And Rot; Or, Meteor-like, Flame Lawless Thro' The Void, Destroying Others, By Himself Destroy'd.