Tender sorrows, transient pleasures;
Anxious hopes, and jealous fears,
Laughing hours, and mourning years.
What is FRIENDSHIP’s soothing name?
But a shadowy, vap’rish flame;
Fancy’s balm, for ev’ry wound,
Ever sought, but rarely found.
What is BEAUTY? but a flow’r,
Blooming, fading, in an hour;
Deck’d with brightest tints at morn,