XLII.

"And yet, alas! the real ills of life Claim the full vigour of a mind prepar'd, Prepared for patient, long, laborious strife, Its guide experience, and truth its guard. We fare on Earth as other men have far'd. Were they successful? Let not us despair. Was disappointment oft their sole reward? Yet shall their tale instruct, if it declare How they have borne the load ourselves are doom'd to bear.