Will to-night lay aside all that’s bad in his nature.
You have heard with what harmony Birds can retire,
And their conduct in this respect all must admire.
In the feather’d race here an example we find,
Far better than that which is set by Mankind.
How oft have their
galas a tragical end,
One loses a mistress, another a friend—
The wife of a third has elop’d from a ball,
A fourth the next day in a duel must fall.