Tis Use Alone That Sanctifies Expense And

Know Then, Unnumber'd Spirits Round Thee Fly, The Light Militia Of The Lower Sky.

Talk What You Will Of Taste, My Friend, You'll Find Two Of A Face As Soon As Of A Mind.

Love Seldom Haunts The Breast Where Learning Lies, And Venus Sets Ere Mercury Can Rise.

Satire's My Weapon, But I'm Too Discreet To Run Amuck, And Tilt At All I Meet.

Silence! Coeval With Eternity! Thou Wert Ere Nature's Self Began To Be; Thine Was The Sway Ere Heaven Was Formed On Earth, Ere Fruitful Thought Conceived Creation's Birth.