The wond’ring rustic flies, nor knows

Which of its currents fastest flows;

Now here the rattling eddies lead,

Now there they foam along the mead,

Till in a silent pool they stand,

Collected on the hollow land.

Go languid fops, go pedants, waste

Your sneers on joys you cannot taste;

And cloak with many a vain pretence

Cold-blooded fear and indolence!