Acts 17:21: Modern Athenians hear

Modern Athenians hear
Your worthless character,
Unprofitable men,
Who seem to live — in vain,
Dissolved in academic ease,
In learned luxurious idleness.
In worse than childish play
Ye lounge your time away;
Your talents misemploy'd,
Your life a useless void,
As God who did your being give
Design'd you for yourselves to live.

Inquisitive to know
The trilling things below,
The things ye will not learn
Which precious souls concern,
Ensure your real happiness,
And seal your everlasting peace.

Yet here your curious pride
Is never satisfied,
Who restlessly pursue
On earth amusements new,
Till gasping out your idle breath
Ye feel the novelties beneath.
-775. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill &c. — xvii
PAUL in its strongest fortress here
The wisdom of the world assails:
Arm'd with the Truth he cannot fear,
The great Essential Truth prevails,
And one to Power almighty join'd
Is sure to conquer all mankind.