Graceless they are when gone to frivolousness,

Fearing the God they flout, the God they glut.

They need their pious exercises less

Than schooling in the Pleasures: fair belief

That these are devilish only to their thief,

Charged with an Axe nigh on the occiput.


THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS.

That Garden of sedate Philosophy

Once flourished, fenced from passion and mishap,