Essay 17

“The wars we well remember of King Nine,Of old Assaracus and Inachus divine.”

“The present eye catches the present object”—

—————“O! thou strong heart!There’s such a covenant ’twixt the world and theeThey’re loth to break!”

“This sensible warm motion can becomeA kneaded clod”—

“Still from the tomb the voice of nature cries;Even in our ashes live their wonted fires!”

“A little rule, a little sway,Is all the great and mighty haveBetwixt the cradle and the grave”—