We By Art Unteach What Nature Taught.

Revealed Religion First Informed Thy Sight, And Reason Saw Not Till Faith Sprung To Light.

An Horrible Stillness First Invades Our Ear, And In That Silence We The Tempest Fear.

War Seldom Enters But Where Wealth Allures.

Welcome, Thou Kind Deceiver! Thou Best Of Thieves; Who, With An Easy Key, Dost Open Life, And, Unperceived By Us, Even Steal Us From Ourselves.

By Viewing Nature, Nature's Handmaid Art, Makes Mighty Things From Small Beginnings Grow: Thus Fishes First To Shipping Did Impart, Their Tail The Rudder, And Their Head The Prow.