See the wretch that long has tost  
  On the thorny bed of pain,  
  At length repair his vigour lost,  
  And breathe and walk again:  
  The meanest floweret of the vale,  
  The simplest note that swells the gale,  
  The common sun, the air, the skies,  
  To him are opening paradise.
Line 41 - Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude (1754)











