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,