The copper couch and one clear nice

Cool squirt of water o'er your bust,

The right thing to extinguish lust!

It 's wiser being good than bad;

It 's safer being meek than fierce:

It 's fitter being sane than mad.

My own hope is, a sun will pierce

The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;

That, after Last, returns the First,

Though a wide compass round be fetched;