Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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FOLLY AND WISDOM.
Thus may one know the Fool from the wise Man:Give to the former all that Hope can crave,
All that between the Cradle and the Grave
The everbusy Fancy's Brain can plan,
The End will find him such as he began,
Unformed within, unchanged in all Things save
Grey Hairs and Wrinkles: let the other have
Of stern Reality the scantiest Span
With Means commensurate, yet therein he
Can fashion forth a World of Beauty, make
Mere earthly Things subserve Eternity:
He in sublime content Want's Bread will break
As 't were the Bread of Immortality,
Yea! Faith to that can change it for his Sake!
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