The deader body Nature could proclaim.

Much life have neither. Let the heavens of wrath

Rattle, then both scud scattering to froth.

But during calms the flies of idle aim

Less put the spirit out, less baffle thirst

For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst.


TIME AND SENTIMENT.

I see a fair young couple in a wood,

And as they go, one bends to take a flower,