Unconscious what is wine’s hilarity profound.
So are all people children, round the saints of God;
5 None adults are, save they who’ve cast off passion’s clod.
’Twas said: “The world’s a toy, a plaything; and men all
Are infants.”[369] These are God’s words. True in sense they fall.
No child but loves his toys, his playthings, games, and sports;
By cultivation of the mind man sense imports.
Man’s love for worldly things is like child’s love for toys;
The child and man, in these, repeat each other’s joys.
The child, in play, performs the very selfsame part,