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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM XVI.

[April the first stands mark'd by custom's rules]

STAT SUA CUIQUE DIES.

April the first stands mark'd by custom's rules,
A day for being, and for making fools:—
But, pray, what custom, or what rule supplies
A day for making, or for being—wise?