Who but in pain a lesser pleasure see?’

Seid then—‘O fool! my agony is great,

And think’st thou I can idly speculate?’”

“The same I say;—let him display his skill

On the world’s woe, who does not feel its ill;

Let speculate the man who feels no pain,

To whom the world is all a pageant vain—

An empty show, stretched out that he may sit,

And crying ‘Fie!’ or ‘Bravo!’ show his wit.

Me the deep feeling of its mighty woe