Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Bitter Experience
CHAPTER XXIII.
PRUDENCE IN POLITICS.
How often, in this cold and bitter world,
Is the warm heart thrown back upon itself!
Cold, careless, are we of another's grief;
We wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness:
Harsh-judging, narrow-minded, stern and chill
In measuring every action but our own.
How small are some men's motives, and how mean!
There are who never knew one generous thought;
Whose heart-pulse never quickened with the joy
Of kind endeavour, or sweet sympathy.—
There are too many such!
Blanchard’s title is:
BITTER EXPERIENCE
In The New Yorker (24th March 1838), as Selfishness