344 INDIGENCE-POVERTY. I once was quick of feeling-that is o'er. I trust the frown thy features wear Ere long into a smile will turn; I would not, that a face so fair As thine, belov'd, should look so stern. BYRON W. LEGGETT. Your coldness I heed not, your frown I defy; When a blush or a smile on that cheek could beguile MRS. OSGOOD INDIGENCE-POVERTY. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression stareth in thine eyes; Upon thy back hangs ragged misery ;— SHAKSPEARE. The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. A begging prince what beggar pities not? Think, too, in what a woful plight The wretch must be, whose pocket's light; SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. GAY'S Fables INDIGENCE - POVERTY. 345 O grant me, Heaven! a middle state, MALLET Be honest poverty thy boasted wealth; So shall thy friendships be sincere tho' few; So shall thy sleep be sound, thy waking cheerful. HAVARD Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. DRYDEN GRAY'S Elegy What numbers, once in fortune's lap high-fed, To shock us more, solicit it in vain! YOUNG'S Night Thoughts Aye idleness—the rich folks never fail But poverty, with most who whimper forth SOUTHEY COWPER'S Task 346 INDUSTRY - INGENUOUSNESS, &c. O, blissful poverty! Nature, too partial to thy lot, assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace Her real goods; and only mocks the great With empty pageantries. He views, with keen desire, The rusty grate, unconscious of a fire. But for pride, FENTON. GOLDSMITH. We had not felt our poverty, but as BYRON'S Werner. Millions of myriads feel it, cheerfully. Behold yon grey-hair'd prisoner, who reclines, Look on his venerable form; behold The snow-white beard that hangs adown his breast. The storm-king rages fearfully without; Yet no bright blaze adds comfort to his hearth; It often falls, in course of common life, That Right longtime is overborne of Wrong, Through avarice, or power, or guile, or strife, Which weakens that, and makes this power strong. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. Things ill begun strengthen themselves in ill. SHAKSPEARE. Mar not the things that cannot be amended. SHAKSPEARE. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, SHAKSPEARE. I see the right, and I approve it too, Then furl your banners better far The sun ne'er shone 66 Or lead the van to unjust fight. MRS. M. ST. LEON LOUD. "Tis wrong to sleep in church- 't is wrong to borrow To tell a secret, or get drunk. But such J. T. WATSON. 848 INJUSTICE - JUSTICE - RIGHT. INJUSTICE-JUSTICE - RIGHT. Nought is on earth more sacred or divine, Than this same virtue, that doth right define; For th' heavens themselves, whence mortal men implore SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 'This, above all, to thine own self be true, Justice, when equal scales she holds, is blind; Nor cruelty nor mercy change her mind : SHAKSPEARE, DENHAM. Just men are only free, the rest are slaves. CHAPMAN. And Justice, while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. O! how glorious 't is To right th' oppress'd, and bring the felon vile BUTLER'S Hudibras. To just disgrace! SOMERVILE'S Chase. |