Bliss is our aim, and bliss our end,

And he who points the path, a friend.

A Goat and Fox, by joint consent,

Together once a journey went;

With patient steps from morning’s dawn,

They measur’d hill, and vale, and lawn;

When Phœbus in the zenith rode,

A cheerless, pathless waste they trod;

The fainting wand’rers wide around,

With sighs survey’d the burning ground;