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POVERTY AND WORTH. 
EVERGREEN. 
Mespilus. 
Language —POVERTY AND WORTH. 
O, POOR man’s son, scorn not thy 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. R 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. 
Epes Sargent. 
All my offering must be 
Truth and spotless constancy. 
Miss Landojt. 
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 ! ” 
