Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/The Littleness of Life
CHAPTER III.
THE INFLUENCE OF AN INVITATION.
Life is so little in its vanities,
So mean, and looking to such worthless aim,
Truly the dust, of which we are a part,
Predominates amid mortality.
Great crimes have something of nobility;
Mighty their warning, vast is their remorse:
But these small faults, that make one half of life
Belong to lowest natures, and reduce
To their own wretched level nobler things.
Blanchard’s title is:
THE LITTLENESS OF LIFE