BELIEVE the word our gentle augur spake:

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Sweet ever; and in naught so sweet as this:

That though the heavens be barred, if we but hold

An equal, quiet, will-illumined mind,

Such greatness in us, laborless, must win

Great answers: cheer from all created things,

And interchange of love by natural right

With the high few, a kinship not of clay.