Point of View.
He views all subjects from one point alone;
Need it be said that point is just his own?
Pre-Raffaelites.
Make to the whole subservient every part;
Your piecemeal excellence shows skill not art.
Pride.
"I have no pride, not I," the donkey cries;
"What can an ass be proud of?" fox replies.
Pride in Small Matters.
"How splendidly I milk!" you make me laugh;
Who milks a cow the best must be a calf!
Proof of Worth.
Slight not the world, but still console thy breast
When those esteem thee most who know thee best.
Recrimination.
Do not recriminate; that biting strain
Backward and forward will saw love in twain.
Scholarship.
For scholarship few read, not one in twenty;
But make it Fellowship, and you'll find plenty.
Scripture and Pride.
Who weighs his worth by God's eternal word
Finds pride a curse, and vanity absurd.
Self.
On your own merits to descant be shy,
Or false, or true, the end is vanity.
Self-love.
Monimia's constancy we all must feel,
She loves herself, and is as true as steel.