-Find out men' s wants and will,
And meet them there. All worldly joys go less
To the one joy of doing kindnesses;"
and that well-known passage from Talfourd,--
"The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter,
Have their own season.
It is a little thing to speak a phase
Of common comfort, which, by daily use,
Has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear
Of him who thought to die unmourned 't will fall
Like choicest music."
A very familiar extract from Carlos Wilcox, almost the only
quotation made nowadays from his poems, was often on my sister
Emilie's lips, whose heart seemed always to be saying to itself:-
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"Pour blessings round thee like a shower of gold!"
I had that beside me, too, and I copy part of it here, for her
sake, and because it will be good for my girl readers to keep in
mind one of the noblest utterances of an almost forgotten
American poet:--
"Rouse to some work of high and holy love,
And thou an angel's happiness shalt know;
Shalt bless the earth while in the world above.
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