PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY:

A BOOK OF

THOUGHTS AND ARGUMENTS,

ORIGINALLY TREATED.

ALSO,

A THOUSAND LINES, AND OTHER POEMS,

BY

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, D:C:L:, F:R:S:,

OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD.

From the London Edition.

ROCHESTER:

PUBLISHED BY ERASTUS DARROW.

Proverbial Philosophy.

FIRST SERIES.

Prefatorg.

Thoughts that have tarried in my mind, and peopled its inner chambers,

The sober children of reason, or desultory train of fancy;

Clear running wine of conviction, with the scum and the lees of speculation;

Corn from the sheaves of science, with stubble from mine own garner:

Searchings after Truth, that have tracked her secret lodes,

And come up again to the surface-world, with a knowledge grounded deeper;

Arguments of high scope, that have soared to the keystone of heaven,

And thence have swooped to their certain mark, as the falcon to its quarry;

The fruits I have gathered of prudence, the ripened harvest of my musings,