• Dost deem him weak that owns his strength is tried?
      Nay, we may safely lean on him that grieves:
    The pine has immemorially sighed,
      The enduring poplar’s are the trembling leaves.

    To feel, and bow the head, is not to fear;
      To cheat with jest—that is the coward’s art:
    Beware the laugh that battles back the tear;
      He ’s false to all...