Man, Like The Generous Vine, Supported Lives;

Silence! Coeval With Eternity! Thou Wert Ere Nature's Self Began To Be; Thine Was The Sway Ere Heaven Was Formed On Earth, Ere Fruitful Thought Conceived Creation's Birth.

Learn From The Birds What Food The Thickets Yield; Learn From The Beasts The Physic Of The Field; The Arts Of Building From The Bee Receive; Learn Of The Mole To Plow, The Worm To Weave.

For Forms Of Faith Let Graceless Zealots Fight; His Can't Be Wrong Whose Life Is In The Right.

Those Oft Are Stratagems Which Errors Seem Nor Is It Homer Nods, But We That Dream.

Sure Of Their Qualities And Demanding Praise, More Go To Ruined Fortunes Than Are Raised.