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With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
Such pains they take to look pretty.
Such pains they take to look pretty.
Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to read more
Then fill the bowl--way with gloom!
Our joys shall always last;
For Hope shall brighten days to come,
And Mem'ry gild the past.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
He that preacheth giveth almes.
He that preacheth giveth almes.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
