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70 POVERTY AND WORTH. 
EVERGREEN. 
Mespilus. 
Language POVERTY AND WORTH. 
0, POOR man's son, scorn not tlij state ; 
There is worse weariness than thine 
In merely being rich and great : 
Toil only gives the soul to shine, 
And makes rest fragrant and benign 
A heritage, it seems to me, 
Worth being poor to hold in fee. 
J. B. Lowell. 
My purse is very slim, and very few 
The acres that I number ; 
But I am seldom stupid, never blue ; 
My riches are an honest heart, and true, 
And quiet slumber. 
All my offering must be 
Truth and spotless constancy. 
Epes Sargent. 
Miss Landon. 
She had passed through the shadow and sunlight of life ; 
She had learned, in its storms, to exult and endure ; 
And her gentle reply with sweet wisdom was rife 
" To me there are none in the universe poor ! " 
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