True Wit Is Nature To Advantage Dressed;

Court-virtues Bear, Like Gems, The Highest Rate, Born Where Heav'n Influence Scarce Can Penetrate. In Life's Low Vale, The Soil The Virtues Like, They Please As Beauties, Here As Wonders Strike.

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

On Life's Vast Ocean Diversely We Sail. Reasons The Card, But Passion The Gale.

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

Genius Involves Both Envy And Calumny.