Temptation lives in the heart
To Want; To Please; To Squander
Pokes the eye and Plagues the imagination
Seize the mind to Stare
And
Squeeze out nobler Dispositions
Takes men for women,
Women for meat.
Creeps in with long Patience
Nudge every waking object
Into
Walking Pleasures
Command men to beasts,
Reason to a whore.
As Storming Winds puffing
Wheezing
An ever so old tale
To Dwindle
Our twinkling, scolding soul.
A constant regret
That led to sunny prayers
Ever so frail is a man.
Yet by a sleep so dies
His Studious Convictions
Have faith, ye gods
Or ye godless gods so faithless win'ed.
