“Ah!” cries the parson, “all things good and fair,
All that is virtuous, wise, belovéd, rare,
Is sure the first to feel the stroke of fate;
While vice and folly have a longer date.”
“True,” cries the butcher, “for it is decreed,
The fattest pig, alas! must soonest bleed.”
THE CLOCK.
A mechanic his labor will often discard,
If the rate of his pay he dislikes;
But a clock—and its case is uncommonly hard—