There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

O how full of briars is this working-day world.

O how full of briars is this working-day world.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.

They succeed, because they think they can.

They succeed, because they think they can.

For murder though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

For murder though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been
caught.

If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been
caught.

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp read more

Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp of pageantry, as if
He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.