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Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.
And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]