The Consolation of Philosophy

by Boethius

Book III.

Song VII. Pleasure's Sting.

    This is the way of Pleasure:
She stings them that despoil her;
And, like the wingéd toiler
    Who's lost her honeyed treasure,
  She flies, but leaves her smart
  Deep-rankling in the heart.


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