Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/Opinions

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Opinions.

CHAPTER XI.

OPINIONS.

He scorned them from the centre of his heart,
For well he knew mankind; and he who knows
Must loathe or pity. He who dwells apart,
With books, and nature, and philosophy,
May lull himself with pity; he who dwells
In crowds and cities, struggling with his race,
Must daily see their falsehood and their faults,
Their cold ingratitude, their selfishness:
How can he choose but loathe them?

In Blanchard

In The New York Mirror (3rd March 1838), as Mankind