Want of wisdom is want of wants
Want of aught else the world nev'r counts.
When fool bestows with glee a gift
It comes but by getter's merit.
The self-torments of fools exceed
Ev'n tortures of their foes indeed.
Stupidity is vanity
That cries "We have sagacity".
Feigning knowledge that one has not
Leads to doubt ev'n that he has got.
Fools their nakedness conceal
And yet their glaring faults reveal.
The fool that slights sacred counsels
Upon himself great harm entails.
He listens not nor himself knows
Plague is his life until it goes.
Sans Self-sight in vain one opens
Sight To the blind who bet their sight as right.
To people's "Yes" who proffer "No"
Deemed as ghouls on earth they go.
PETTY CONCEIT
