"And doomed to death, though fated not to die."

"For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be loved needs only to be seen."

"My thoughtless youth was winged with vain desires; My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Followed false lights;…"

"For you may palm upon us new for old; All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold."

"Of all the tyrannies on human-kind, The worst is that which persecutes the mind."

"Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive; The first is law, the last prerogative."

"And kind as kings upon their coronation day."

"Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell."

"And leaves the private conscience for the guide."

"A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged; Without unspotted, innocent wi…"