"The poet's adage, 'All the world's a stage,'
Has stood the test of each revolving age;
Another simile perhaps will bear,
'Tis a Stage-coach, where all must pay the fare;
Where each his entrance and his exit makes,
And o'er life's rugged road his journey takes.
Some unprotected must their tour perform,
'And bide the pelting of the pitiless storm:'
While others, free from elemental jars,
By fortune favour'd, and propitious stars,