Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/Antisthenes

by Lydia Sigourney

ANTISTHENES.

THE REPLY OF THE PHILOSOPHER ANTISTHENES TO THE ENQUIRY WHAT HE HAD GAINED BY HIS LEARNING.

"IT makes me happy in my lone retreat,
"And with my heart it gives me converse sweet;
"And why should he be much inclined to roam,
"Who finds a better banquet still at home?"

And those may say, who by their Saviour blest,
Bear heavenly science planted in their breast,

"This in my slumber guards my helpless head,
And when I wake it cheers me on my bed,
And when I walk it rises for my guest,
And when I speak it answers in my breast,
It soothes my sorrows, guides me when I roam,
And when I die it gently leads me home."

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