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Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
Empty Chambers make foolish maides.
Empty Chambers make foolish maides.
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him read more
He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea.
[He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's read more
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
How like the leper, with his own sad cry
Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!
That lonely read more
How like the leper, with his own sad cry
Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!
That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,
To warn us from the place of jeopardy!
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
