For all an April morning, till ear
Wearies to hear it.
—Tennyson.
The sycophant succeeds where the self-respecting man fails, yet the former is despised and the latter revered. The first is happy if he secure the favor of the great; the latter is content if he can secure that of himself.—Charles Churchill Marble.
"THAT I MAY HELP."
The depth and dream of my desire,
The bitter paths wherein I stray,
Thou knowest, Who hast made the fire,