Like a house that’s divided thou art;
Both thy Maker and Mammon thou gladly would’st serve,
But the former requires thy whole heart.
“Let me die the death of the righteous,” say’st thou,
“And my last end like his let it be;”
But if like the righteous unwilling to live,
Never hope like the righteous to die.
March 24, 1853.
Though life is young, and spirits gay,