While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.

While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.

With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more

With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
more shall we be able to read more

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever
more shall we be able to recall it.

'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.

'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.

So--now the danger dared at last,
Look back and smile at perils past!

So--now the danger dared at last,
Look back and smile at perils past!

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

'Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

'Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.

This victory will be your I ruin.

This victory will be your I ruin.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

Time stoops to no man's lure.