Why! to escape yourself—from whom, be sure,
You cannot flee out of whatever door.
Yourself you loathe for sickness!
And its Cause?
None else than being blind to Nature’s laws.
Life-in-death—it fleets! Moments its concern;
Yet in them what may not a mortal learn!
Study those laws, I say; they keep the key
Of the Universe and Eternity;
The clue to what hereafter shall be made