"Vast happiness enjoy thy gay allies!
"A youth of follies; and old age, of cares:
"Young, yet enervate; old, yet never wise;
"Vice wastes their vigour, and their mind impairs.
"Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless ease
"Reserving woes for age their prime they spend;
"All wretched, hopeless, in the evil days
"With sorrow to the verge of life they tend.
"Griev'd, with the present; of the past, asham'd:
"They live, and are despis'd: they die, nor more are nam'd.