\u201cThou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, COMPLEMENTAL VERSES THE PRETENSIONS OF POVERTY \u201cThou dost presume too much, poor needy wretch, To claim a station in the firmament, Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, With roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand, Tearing those humane passions from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.digitalthoreau.org\/walden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo claim a station in the firmament,
\nBecause thy humble cottage, or thy tub,
\nNurses some lazy or pedantic virtue
\nIn the cheap sunshine or by shady springs,
\nWith roots and pot-herbs; where thy right hand,
\nTearing those humane passions from the mind,
\nUpon whose stocks fair blooming virtues flourish,
\nDegradeth nature, and benumbeth sense,
\nAnd, Gorgon-like, turns active men to stone.
\nWe not require the dull society
\nOf your necessitated temperance,
\nOr that unnatural stupidity
\nThat knows nor joy nor sorrow; nor your forc\u2019d
\nFalsely exalted passive fortitude
\nAbove the active. This low abject brood,
\nThat fix their seats in mediocrity,
\nBecome your servile minds; but we advance
\nSuch virtues only as admit excess,
\nBrave, bounteous acts, regal magnificence,
\nAll-seeing prudence, magnanimity
\nThat knows no bound, and that heroic virtue
\nFor which antiquity hath left no name,
\nBut patterns only, such as Hercules,
\nAchilles, Theseus. Back to thy loath\u2019d cell;
\nAnd when thou seest the new enlightened sphere,
\nStudy to know but what those worthies were.\u201d
\nT. CAREW<\/cite><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"