Sure Of Their Qualities And Demanding Praise,

True Friendship's Laws Are By This Rule Express'd, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Parting Guest.

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.

On Life's Vast Ocean Diversely We Sail, Reason The Card, But Passion Is The Gale; Nor God Alone In The Still Calm We Find, He Mounts The Storm, And Walks Upon The Wind.

The Lot Of Man - To Suffer And To Die.

To Dazzle Let The Vain Design, To Raise The Thought And Touch The Heart, Be Thine!