Jamie's bad wife/Chapter 2

by Anonymous

SUCCESS TO THE LOOM.

Let the learn'd and unlearn'd still pursue their fond schemes,
And pursue the same end by quite different means;
We weavers can never know sorrow nor gloom,
While commerce is brisk, and we work on our loom.

The coxcomb thinks happiness center'd in self,
The Statesman in power, the miser in pelf
The heir when he sees his old sire in the tomb;
But the bliss of us weavers is fix'd in our loom.