But here we stop not to contend
Whether, to answer Life's great end,
'Tis best from place to place to range,
Or fix to one, and never change.
Suffice it, that, from choice or chance,
Quæ Genus hurried through some dance
Of early life, and, as we see,
Not knowing what the next would be:
But now, disdaining future tricks,
He felt a firm resolve to fix