Thus I found that love
At times may prove a treasure even dead,
If dead enough in spirits yet alive.
Mine, thwarted so, had made me more the man
That Elbert wish’d,—a man for all mankind;—
No special pleader for a special class
Whose grasping greed crowds out the general good;—
But one who pleads for all fair rights for all.
Nor would I bide content with utter’d words.
Too often, these, when widest welcomed, wake