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What is Good by #JohnBoyleOReilly.
"What is the real good?"
I asked in musing mood.
Order, said the law court;
Knowledge, said the school;
Truth, said the wise man;
Pleasure, said the fool;
Love, said the maiden;
Beauty, said the page;
Freedom, said the dreamer;
Home, said the sage;
Fame, said the soldier;
Equity, the seer;—Spake my heart full sadly:
"The answer is not here."Then within my bosom
Softly this I heard:
"Each heart holds the secret:
Kindness is the word." -
« I am weary of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;
Heart weary of building and spoiling
And spoiling and building again;
And I long for the dear old river
Where I dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day. »― John Boyle O'Reilly