My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
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Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang
To step aside is human.

They make a desert and they call it peace.

They make a desert and they call it peace.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
and the disease in a great measure removed.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.