This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...should be ruled by Pain; And Pleasure be the master of the rest. THE TWO KINGS. 133 A proper plan enough it seemed, at first; But soon they found, despite each outward sign, That--save, indeed, between the best and worst--None less than Jove could fairly draw the line. They found--to make discrimination nice- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...should be ruled by Pain; And Pleasure be the master of the rest. THE TWO KINGS. 133 A proper plan enough it seemed, at first; But soon they found, despite each outward sign, That--save, indeed, between the best and worst--None less than Jove could fairly draw the line. They found--to make discrimination nice--To classify the race defied their skill: The virtuous all had more or less of vice; The vicious showed some sparks of virtue still. The generous man was "fashed wi' worldly lust "; The devotee was full of saintly pride; The chaste was covetous; and none so just But they had still some little sin to hide. And, looking sharply at the darker part, Not one among them all was wholly bad; Here was a sot who had a generous heart, And there a thief who saved a drowning lad. Virtue and Vice!--how easily they trace The larger forms of each; but to assign Their just proportion in a special case, --Who but the gods could safely draw the line? 134 THE TWO KINGS. And so it was agreed (lest strife befall From such confusion) each, in turn, should reign: Pleasure should have dominion over all; And all, at times, should feel the rule of Pain. And still, as erst, they rule the human race, --Pleasure and Pain, --in short, alternate sway; And whichsoe'er may show his regal face, We know his fellow is not far away! JUPITER AND HIS CHILDREN. A CLASSIC FABLE. Once on sublime Olympus, when Great Jove, the sire of gods and men, Was looking down on this our Earth, And marking the increasing dearth Of pious deeds and noble lives, While vice abounds and meanness thrives, He straight determined to efface At one fell swoop the thankless race Of human kind. "Go!" said the King Unto his messenger, "and bring The vengeful furies; be it theirs, ...
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SAXE, John Godfrey. LEISURE-DAY RHYMES. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1875. 12mo., brown cloth, stamped in gilt. First Edition. Later binding with the Houghton Mifflin imprint at the base of the spine. [BAL 17318]. Only 1, 600 copies were printed. Very Good (bright, one corner slightly bumped). $50.00.
