The poverty, the crimes, the broken hearts,

The intense mental agonies that lead

Some men to self-destruction, some

To end their days within a madhouse cell,

The thousand curses that gold brings upon us,

The long death-struggle for the means to live,—

All these the savage knows and suffers not.

But then the joys, the pleasures and delights,

That the well-cultivated mind enjoys;

The appreciation of the beautiful