Fool, 'tis In Vain From

Find, If You Can, In What You Cannot Change. Manners With Fortunes, Humours Turn With Climes, Tenets With Books, And Principles With Times.

The Lights And Shades, Whose Well-accorded Strife Gives All The Strength And Color Of Our Life.

E'en Sunday Shines No Sabbath Day To Me.

In Lazy Apathy Let Stoics Boast, Their Virtue Fixed, 'tis Fixed As In A Frost.

While Man Exclaims, "see All Things For My Use!" "see Man For Mine!" Replies A Pamper'd Goose.