Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.

An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.