So be not “like an idle girl,” fretting over little faults—“flecks of sin.” But wait, thy wealth will be gathered in—thy worth shown
“When Time hath sunder’d shell from pearl”—
when the flesh has left the Soul free from its contaminating influence.
LIII.
He has often known a father, now
“A sober man among his boys,”
whose youth was noisy and foolish. Are we then to conclude from his example, that had there been no wild oats sown, there scarcely would have come
“The grain by which a man may live?”
If we ventured to name such a doctrine among the old, who have “outlived heats of youth,” would we preach it to the young, who still “eddy round and round?”
Hold fast what is good, and define it well; and take care that “divine Philosophy” does not exceed her legitimate bound and become