It is coming! it is coming! and men's thoughts are growing deeper;

They are giving of their millions as they never gave before;

They are learning the new gospel, man must be his brother's keeper,

And right, not might, shall triumph, and the selfish rule no more.

—Sarah Knowles Bolton.

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To a darning-needle once exclaimed the kitchen sieve,

"You've a hole right through your body, and I wonder how you live."

But the needle (who was sharp) replied, "I too have wondered

That you notice my one hole, when in you there are a hundred!"