Treading softly like a thief,
Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,
And feeling all along the read more

Treading softly like a thief,
Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,
And feeling all along the garden wall.

'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee
will repay thee.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee
will repay thee.

You are his father by nature, I by counsel.

You are his father by nature, I by counsel.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I
contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I
contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

This world is nothing except it tend to another.

The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.

The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.