“What then must their possessors feel? how grand
And happy they who can such joys command!
For they may pleasures all their lives pursue,
The winter pleasures, and the summer’s too—
Pleasures for every hour in every day—
Oh! how their time must pass in joy away!”
So Peter said.—Replied the courteous Dame: 520
“What you call pleasure scarcely owns the name.
The very changes of amusement prove
There’s nothing that deserves a lasting love.