Maxioms by Thomas Gray
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.
Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.
When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.
