1. Is every gleam of lightning deceptive?

    Is there nothing in Time that gives no cause for doubt?

  2. A dignity forbids me to utter abusive words—

    too lofty for faults to dwell beside it.

  3. All natures have grown alike: no lowly man

    yearns for praise, nor any man of noble birth.

  4. Miserliness has spread through all things, until

    even the blowing wind all but begrudges its breath.

  5. How, then, can I single out anything as “flawed,”

    when most of what you behold is itself flawed?

Sol 5.6