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16   The markets, the government, the working-man's      wages — to think what account they are through      our nights and days !
To think that other working-men will make just as      great account of them — yet we make little or      no account !
17  The vulgar and the refined — what you call sin, and      what you call goodness — to think how wide a      difference !
To think the difference will still continue to others,      yet we lie beyond the difference.
18  To think how much pleasure there is !
Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? have you      pleasure from poems ?
Do you enjoy yourself in the city ? or engaged in      business ? or planning a nomination and elec-     tion ? or with your wife and family ?
Or with your mother and sisters ? or in womanly      house-work ? or the beautiful maternal cares ?
These also flow onward to others — you and I flow      onward,
But in due time you and I shall take less interest in      them.
19  Your farm, profits, crops, — to think how engross'd      you are !
To think there will still be farms, profits, crops — yet      for you, of what avail ?