When Much Dispute Has Past, We Find

The Most Positive Men Are The Most Credulous.

All Nature Mourns, The Skies Relent In Showers; Hushed Are The Birds, And Closed The Drooping Flowers.

Placed On This Isthmus Of A Middle State, A Being Darkly Wise And Rudely Great... He Hangs Between; In Doubt To Act Or Rest; In Doubt To Deem Himself A God, Or Beast; In Doubt His Mind Or Body To Prefer; Born To Die, And Reasoning But To Err.

And Make Each Day A Critic On The Last.

Praise Undeserved, Is Satire In Disguise.