Babble your simple sermon; say, Behold
Contentment, better far than gems or gold,
Or crown of sceptred king.
Tell him, thou deep-voiced wind,
How a brave, earnest spirit may awake
Responsive thought, till distant cycles take
Their orbits from his mind;
And thou, O river wide!
Tell how a steady purpose gathers strength
From singleness of aim, until at length