A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

I tell the tale as it was told to me.

I tell the tale as it was told to me.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Of what avail are pedigrees?

He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.

He bristles with hair, like a sea-urchin or a hunted boar.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

The question is yet before the court.

The question is yet before the court.

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear
Can others teach their course to steer,
Yet run himself read more

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear
Can others teach their course to steer,
Yet run himself life's mad career
Wild as the wave?

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing read more

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.