I Am About To Be

Physicians Mend Or End Us, Secundum Artem; But Although We Sneer - In Health - When Ill We Call Them To Attend Us, Without The Least Propensity To Jeer

What Men Call Gallantry, And Gods Adultery, Is Much More Common Where The Climate's Sultry.

There's Not A Joy The World Can Give Like That It Takes Away.

Not To Admire, Is All The Art I Know To Make Men Happy, Or To Keep Them So. Thus Horace Wrote We All Know Long Ago; And Thus Pope Quotes The Precept To Re-teach From His Translation; But Had None Admired, Would Pope Have Sung, Or Horace Been Inspired?

Fools Are My Theme, Let Satire Be My Song.