’Twill make a thing endurable, which else
Would overset the brain or break the heart.”
He found the best portion of a good man’s life in
“His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
In The Old Cumberland Beggar he declared
“’Tis Nature’s law
That none, the meanest of created things,
Of forms created the most vile and brute,
The dullest or most noxious, should exist