Harsh thoughts, blind angers, and fierce hands,

That keep this restless world at strife,

Mean passions that, like choking sands,

Perplex the stream of life,

Pride and hot envy and cold greed,

The cankers of the loftier will,

What if ye triumph, and yet bleed?

Ah, can ye not be still?

Oh, shall there be no space, no time,

No century of weal in store,