For love goes lowly;—but Oppression's tall,

And with surpassing strides goes foremost still

Where love indeed can hardly reach at all;

Like a poor dwarf o'erburthen'd with good will,

That labors to efface the tracks of ill.—"

LXVII.

"Man even strives with Man, but we eschew

The guilty feud, and all fierce strifes abhor;

Nay, we are gentle as the sweet heaven's dew,

Beside the red and horrid drops of war,