• From “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
      ON what foundations stands the warrior’s pride,
    How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide:
    A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,
    No dangers fright him, and no labors tire;
    O’er love, o’er fear, extends his wide domain,
    Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain.
    No joys to him pacific sceptres yield,...