That in each worldly Change endure;
The Competence that not on Friends,
But on a certainty, depends; 10
The Love for one in whom thy Choice
But ratifies the general Voice;
One who[se] Esteem will grow and last,
When passion’s warmer Day is past—
And you have past more years than he
Who prays for all this good to thee—
He who will then have ceas’d to share