Profan'd The God-given Strength, And Marr'd The

Hope Is Brightest When It Dawns From Fears.

Each Age Has Deemed The New-born Year The Fittest Time For Festal Cheer.

Fortune May Raise Up Or Abuse The Ordinary Mortal, But The Sage And The Soldier Should Have Minds Beyond Her Control.

I Was Not Always A Man Of Woe.

In Man's Most Dark Extremity Oft Succour Dawns From Heaven.