Truth Needs Not Flowers Of Speech.

But Blind To Former As To Future Fate, What Mortal Knows His Pre-existent State?

I Lisp'd In Numbers, For The Numbers Came.

With The Mistake Your Life Goes In Reverse. Now You Can See Exactly What You Did Wrong Yesterday And Wrong The Day Before And Each Mistake Leads Back To Something Worse.

And Empty Heads Console With Empty Sound.

Like Cato, Give His Little Senate Laws, And Sit Attentive To His Own Applause.