Moderation
Published by Webmaster on 07/30/2003 (4234 reads)When pious people label vice
I reckon mainly pleasure;
I dream that women, wine and dice
Are good in modest measure;
Though sanctity and truth receive
My hearty approbation,
Of all the virtues, I believe
The best is Moderation.Be moderate in love and hate,
Soft pedal on emotion;
And never let your passion get
The better of your caution.
Should Right or Leftist seek to goad
You from the course that's level,
Stick to the middle of the road
And send them to the devil.Though rich the feast be moderate
In eating and in drinking;
An appetite insatiate
Is evil to my thinking.
Though ladies languidly await
Your kisses, on your way shun
Their wiles, but - well, be moderate
Even in moderation.Avoid extremes: be moderate
In saving and in spending;
An equable and easy gait
Will win an easy sending. . . .
So here's to him of open mind,
Of sense and toleration,
That hope of headlong human-kind,
The Man of Moderation.
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