And grow still paler by the midnight lamps. 10
Not to debilitate with timorous rules
A hardy frame; nor needlessly to brave
Unglorious dangers, proud of mortal strength;
Is all the lesson that in wholsome years
Concerns the strong. His care were ill bestow’d 15
Who would with warm effeminacy nurse
The thriving oak, which on the mountain’s brow
Bears all the blasts that sweep the wintry heav’n.
Behold the labourer of the glebe, who toils