The Conclusion

Read o'er these pleasing lines with care, my dear, For you alone are they inserted here; Songs wrote to please you, tales for you design'd, Both to divert you, and improve your mind. Whatever you in earliest days are taught, Is thus, by care, to just perfection brought; Yet still amusement we shall here bestow, For with amusement should instruction go. Our verses are contriv'd for ev'ry ear, And you must understand them when you hear: Then to our rhymes a pleas'd attention give, And you will taste their profits while you live. To little ones our rhymes are now address'd, Great ones may profit by the truths express'd. Then let not any thing prevent your claim, To take what leads you still to worth and fame. In every line a moral fair is shewn, Children may make that moral still their own; And, if they take it, shall in future days, Succeed to wealth, to happiness, and praise.