Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry — Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. - William Cowper

An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.

My fugitive years are all hasting away,
And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,
With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head,
Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
'Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,
To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;
Though his life be a dream, his enjoyments I see,
Have a being less durable even than he.