Society and the World

Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, “The same as everywhere!”

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, “The same as everywhere!”

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Toll for the brave— The brave! that are no more; All sunk beneath the wave, Fast by their native shore!

An honest man, close-button’d to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.

But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

’Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free! They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

The watchdog’s voice that bay’d the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 6

How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease.

His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

For just experience tells; in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

For just experience tells; in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.