DE LA LIBERTÉ POLITIQUE, ET DE SES LIMITES NATURELLES

Freedom, restraîn’d by reason’s force ,

Is as the sun’s unvarying course ,

Benignly active , sweelly briglit ,

Affording warmth , affording liglit ;

But torn from virtue’s sacred rules Becomes a cornet , gaz’d by fools , Forebodlng cares , and storms , and strife. And fraught with ail the plagues of life.

Moori.