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  • To A Friend on the Choice Of A Wife

       'TIS hard (experience long so taught the wise)

    Not to provoke the person we advise.

    Counsel, tho' ask'd, may very oft offend.

    When it insults th' opinion of my friend.

    Men frequent wish another's judgment known,

    Not to destroy, but to confirm their own.

    With feign'd suspense for our advice they...

  • To a friend, on being asked for some verses

            I thought the Soul of Song had made

                This heart of mine her sepulchre;

            For all her golden dreams had fled,

                And I could win no note from her.

     

            But when for thee thou bid'st her sing,

                That spell dissolves her icy chain;

            She...

  • To Chuse a Friend

    To all young Men that love to Wooe,

    To Kiss and Dance, and Tumble too;

    Draw near and Counsel take of me,

    Your faithful Pilot I will be:

    Kiss who you please, Joan, Kate, or Mary,

    But still this Counsel with you carry.


    Never Marry.


    Court not a Country Lady, she

    ...

  • To my friend, on his birthday

               Oh, Time! deal gently with my friend,

                  Who gently deals with all;

               And on his loved and honored head

                  Let blessings only fall


               In love to God, and love to man,

                  His days pass here below;

               And so, to reach the home above...

  • To my friend, on his birthday (II)

              He who has walked among his fellow-men

              This life's rough path for threescore years and ten,

              Bearing for others, on the weary way,

              The heat and burden of the toilsome day;

              Sounding the silvery notes of faith and hope

              Whene'er the weak or the despairing droop...