With heart and soul to hold it cheap,
And then to go and try it again;
O false, unwise, absurd, and vain!
O, ’tis not joy, and ’tis not bliss,
Only it is precisely this
That keeps us still alive.
IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
Each for himself is still the rule;
We learn it when we go to school—
The devil take the hindmost, O!