Nobility
True worth is in being, not seeming -
In doing, each day that goes by
Some little good - not in dreaming
Of great things to do by and by
For whatever men say in their blindness
And spite of the fancies of youth
There's nothing so kingly as kindness
And nothing so royal as truth
We get back our mete as we measure -
We cannot do wrong and feel right
Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure
For justice avenges each slight
We cannot make bargains for blisses
Nor catch them like fishes in nets
And sometimes the thing our life misses
Helps more than the thing which it gets
For good lieth not in pursuing
Nor gaining of great nor of small
But just in the doing, and doing
As we would be done by, is all
Alice Cary
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