THE PRICELESS THINGS.
Those are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;
While the precious and the peerless are unpriced symbolic things.
Common debts are scored and cancelled, weighed and measured out for gold;
But the debts from men to ages, their account is never told.
Always see, the noblest nations keep their highest prize unknown;
Chæronea's deathless lion frowned above unlettered stone.
Ah, the Greeks knew! Come their victors honored from the sacred games,
Under arches red with roses, flushed to hear their shouted names;
