Cowper: On Friendship.
BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753.
Westward the course of empire takes its way;[312:2]
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.