LIBERTY?
When most for liberty the people shout
There's usually the least of it about:
It means most oft that every one is free
With the misguided millions to agree.
WHEN TRUTH SHOULD BE TOLD
Should we the truth on all occasions tell?
Say, should the sun each morn the darkness quell?
LOVE LIKE THE MOON
Love's like the changing moon, whose figure
Grows smaller if it grows not bigger.
LOVE VERSUS REASON
What reason have I for my love, you ask?
Alas! to answer were too hard a task:
Affection from the reason does not flow,
The heart has reasons reason does not know.
THE ONLY HAPPINESS
At happiness in prospect do not jeer,
Since 'tis the only pleasure we have here.
LOVE NOT TO BE WILLED
To love or not to love we cannot will;
A greater will our will o'erruleth still.
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