“For this true nobleness I seek in vain.
In woman and in man I find it not.
I almost weary of my earthly lot.
My life springs are dried up with burning pain.
‘Thou findest it not? I pray thee look again.
Look inward through the depths of thine own soul.
How is it with thee? Art thou sound and whole?
Doth narrow search show thee no earthly stain?
Be noble! And the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes.
Then will pure light around thy path be shed,
And thou wilt never more be sad or lone.’”
In woman and in man I find it not.
I almost weary of my earthly lot.
My life springs are dried up with burning pain.
‘Thou findest it not? I pray thee look again.
Look inward through the depths of thine own soul.
How is it with thee? Art thou sound and whole?
Doth narrow search show thee no earthly stain?
Be noble! And the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes.
Then will pure light around thy path be shed,
And thou wilt never more be sad or lone.’”
LOWELL
“As I am, so I see.”
EMERSON
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