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Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own
conduct.
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own
conduct.
