Alexander Pope

The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.

The blest to-day is as completely so,
As who began a thousand years ago.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.