Sweet Auburn, Loveliest Village Of The Plain.

A Man He Was To All The Country Dear, And Passing Rich With Forty Pounds A Year.

A Kind And Gentle Heart He Had, To Comfort Friends And Foes; The Naked Every Day He Clad When He Put On His Clothes.

A Boy Will Learn More True Wisdom In A Public School In A Year Than By A Private Education In Five. It Is Not From Masters, But From Their Equals, That Youth Learn A Knowledge Of The World.

By Every Remove I Only Drag A Greater Length Of Chain.

Alas! The Joys That Fortune Brings Are Trifling, And Decay, And Those Who Prize The Trifling Things, More Trifling Still Than They.