To A Republican Friend, 1848
God knows it, I am with you. If to prize Those virtues, prizd and practisd by too few, But prizd, but lovd, but eminent in you, Mans fundamental life: if to despise The barren optimistic sophistries Of comfortable moles, whom what they do Teaches the limit of the just and true And for such doing have no need of eyes: If sadness at the long heart-wasting show Wherein earths great ones are disquieted: If thoughts, not idle, while before me flow The armies of the homeless and unfed: If these are yours, if this is what you are, Then am I yours, and what you feel, I share
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