Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to
break its way through hard rocks, read more

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to
break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than
lightning.

Drought never brought dearth.

Drought never brought dearth.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

He that will be surety, shall pay.

Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.

Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

And sanguine hope through every storm of life,
Shoots her bright beams, and calms the internal strife.

As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of read more

As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of and discards.

Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!

Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!

I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more

I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.

This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.

This oiled and curled Assyrian bull,
Smelling of musk and of insolence.