Socrates said, our only knowledge was To know that nothing could be known;' a Science enough, which levels to an ass Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, VI. And in this scene of all-confess'd inanity, VII. Dogs, or men !-for I flatter you in saying [ray Of wolves, will the bright muse withdraw one From out her skies-then howl your idle wrath, While she still silvers o'er your gloomy path. VIII. Fierce loves and faithless wars '-I am not sure The fact's about the same, I am secure : I sing them both, and am about to batter IX. The fortress is call'd Ismail, and is placed Upon the Danube's left branch and left bank, But still a fortress of the foremost rank, It stands some eighty versts from the high sea, X. Within the extent of this fortification A borough is comprised, along the height XI. This circumstance may serve to give a notion Of the high talents of this new Vauban : But the town ditch below was deep as ocean, The rampart higher than you'd wish to hang: But then there was a great want of precaution (Prithee, excuse this engineering slang), Nor work advanced, nor cover'd way, was there, In short, all know, or very soon may know it ;]To hint at least Here is no thoroughfare.' Ecclesiastes said that all is vanity' [it Most modern preachers say the same, or show By their examples of true Christianity : |