The First And Wisest Of Them All

Beauty Is Nature's Brag, And Must Be Shown In Courts, At Feasts, And High Solemnities, Where Most May Wonder At The Workmanship.

A Good Principle Not Rightly Understood May Prove As Hurtful As A Bad.

Loneliness Is The First Thing Which God's Eye Named Not Good.

Our Cure, To Be No More; Sad Cure!

A Thousand Fantasies Begin To Throng Into My Memory, Of Calling Shapes, And Beckoning Shadows Dire, And Airy Tongues That Syllable Men's Names On Sands And Shores And Desert Wildernesses