Song
Man's a poor deluded bubble,
Wand'ring in a mist of lies,
Seeing false, or seeing double,
Who wou'd trust to such weak eyes?
Yet presuming on his senses,
On he goes most wond'rous wise:
Doubts of truth, believes pretences;
Lost in error, lives and dies.
~~
Robert Dodsley (1703-1764)
from Trifles, 1745
[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]
Robert Dodsley biography
No comments:
Post a Comment