ELIZA COOK.
1. We have faith in old proverbs[459] full surely,
For wisdom has traced[460] what they tell,
And truth may be drawn up as purely
From them, as it may from a “well.”
Let us question the thinkers and doers,
And hear what they honestly say,
And you’ll find they believe, like bold wooers,[461]
In “Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
2. The hills have been high for man’s mounting,