The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to
retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, read more

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to
retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow read more

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.

Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.

Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no
colors.'

I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no
colors.'

Mutually giving and receiving aid,
They set each other off, like light and shade.

Mutually giving and receiving aid,
They set each other off, like light and shade.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his
physician his heir.

The stern delight that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.

The stern delight that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.