Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/The False and the Unjust
Note: Chapter XXXI. is introduced by a quotation from Pope.
CHAPTER XXXII.
AN AUDIENCE.
Not with the world to teach us, may we learn
The spirit's noblest lessons. Hope and Faith
Are stars that shine amid the far off heaven,
Dimmed and obscured by vapours from below;
Impatient selfishness, and shrewd distrust,
Are taught us in the common ways of life;
Dust is beneath our feet, and at our side
The coarse and mean, the false and the unjust;
And constant contact makes us grow too like
The things we daily struggle with and scorn:
Only by looking up, can we see heaven.
Blanchard’s title is:
THE FALSE AND THE UNJUST