Maxioms by Alexander Pope
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.
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we read more
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where tho' all things differ, all agree.
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.