One must have had them to be born at all!
And those who have no pedigree to show,
Or who their grandsires were but scantly know.”
“From change of homes or lack of friends at need,
And so have lost all record of their breed,
Are not more “low-born” than your men of blood;
A nigger’s well-born, if he makes for good!”
The following are a few more epigrammatic bits from the writings of less noted contemporaries.
Philippides
’Tis easy, while at meals you take your fill,