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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 ?
