PRUDENCE.

"Bide your time."—Rebel Song.

Bide your time—bide your time!

Patience is the true sublime.

Heroes, bottle up your tears;

Wait for ten, or ten score, years.

Shrink from blows, but rage in rhyme:

Bide your time—bide your time!

Snakes are safest in their slime.

Sages look before they leap;

Heroes, to your hovels creep.

Christmas loves pantomime:

Bide your time—bide your time!

"Shoulder arms"—but never prime.

Keep your skins from Saxon lead;

Plunder paupers for your bread.

Popish begging is no crime:

Bide your time—bide your time!

[Greek: Aion.]