Convivial Sects, and Bucks alert and bold;

A kind of Masons, but without their sign;

The bonds of union - pleasure, song, and wine.

Man, a gregarious creature, loves to fly

Where he the trackings of the herd can spy;

Still to be one with many he desires,

Although it leads him through the thorns and briers.

A few! but few there are, who in the mind

Perpetual source of consolation find:

The weaker many to the world will come,