But few, ae) ! the casual Lot te boast, 
So hard to gain, so easy to be lost ; 
How vain that second life in other’ 3 breath, 
Th’ estate which wits inherit after death ! 
Ease, health, and life, for this they must =e 
Unsure the tenure, but how vast the fine! ... Young. 
What is so foolish as the chase of cgeege Po 
vl vain the prize! how impoten 
who grasp at lee ‘ania: 
But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, 
That rise, and fall, that swell, and are no gi, 
Born, and forgot, ten thousand i in an hov 
ll Fame is ore but a true desert : 
Plays round the head, but comes not near the heart : 
One pena: eis whole Bea uh outweighs 
nd m 
Than Cesar with a senate at his heels........ Pope. 
ANSWER. 
Nor Fume I slight, nor for her favors call, 
She comes unlook’ : a if she comes at — 
Unblemish’d let me live, or die unkno 
Oh! grant me hones Same, or proms me ate Pope. 
TUBEROSE. Le PLUS LOIN, LE PLUS CHER. pia love can trifle with itse 
Fie! fie! how wayward is ol foolish love! . . Shaks. 
POLYANTHES TUBEROSA. 
0 falls out 
Its ; 
That what we have, we prize not to the worth 
Whiles we enjoy it; but, being lacked and lost, 
Why, then, we rack the value: then we find 
The virtue that possession would not show us 
Whiles it was ours 
What our res aaa do often hurl from us, 
We wish it ours a 
peek alte uncertain treasure, 
ast thou more of pain or pleasure? 
pg, aneanis dwell abou 
Yet who would live, and live without thee 
Addison’ s tied, 
By me the token poe that tell 
What words can never tell so well. . 
ea thing seems drear without thee! ...... Moore. 
atte 
snes 
A DECLARATION OF LOvE. Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, 
And courage to make his love known? 
No wonder that my heart was moved, 
— marvel if I had not loved 
OTE Be 2 
ie FeS 
