Of British Themis with no mean applause
Pronounced and in his volumes taught our laws
Which others at their bar so often wrench；
To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench
In mirth that after no repenting draws；
Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause
And what the Swede intends and what the French.
To measure life learn thou betimes and know
Toward solid good what leads the nearest way；
For other things mild Heaven a time ordains
And disapproves that care though wise in show
That with superfluous burden loads the day
And when God sends a cheerful hour refrains.