名人诗歌|To Cyriack Skinner

CYRIACK whose grandsire on the royal bench

Of British Themis with no mean applause

Pronounced and in his volumes taught our laws

Which others at their bar so often wrench^1；

To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench²

In mirth that after no repenting^{3 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 ordains⁴

And disapproves^{5 that care though wise in show}

That with superfluous^{6 burden loads the day}

And when God sends a cheerful hour refrains.