Read it through once

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? who is it good to be born? Is the amaranth and the river a happier man than I? Is the farmer a greater man than the patient who drinks at his own cask? Are the boatman, the blacksmith, the mason, the shoemaker, the carpenter, the ploughman, the weaver, the dyer, the fisher, the hunter, the sailor, the soldier, the clerk, the legislator, the preacher, the thief, the publican, or the citizen by virtue of their calling more to be envied?