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From the Newark Evening Star, July 19, 1915<\/a>. By Alice Cary.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

True worth is in being, not seeming\u2014    In doing each day that goes bySome little good\u2014not in dreaming    Of great things to do by and by.For whatever men say in blindness,    And in spite of the fancies of youth,There\u2019s nothing so kingly as kindness,    There\u2019s nothing so royal as truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

We get back our meet as we measure\u2014    We cannot do wrong and feel right.Nor can we give pain and gain pleasure,    For justice avenges each slight.The air for the wing of the sparrow,    The bush for the robin and wren,But always the path that is narrow    And straight for the children of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\u2019Tis not in the pages of story    The heart of its ills to beguile,Though he who makes courtship to glory    Gives all that he hath for her smile.For when from her heights he has won her,    Alas! It is only to proveThat nothing\u2019s so sacred as honor,    And nothing\u2019s so royal as love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

We cannot make bargains for blisses,    Nor catch them like fishes in nets;And sometimes the thing our life misses    Helps more than the thing which it gets.For good lieth not in pursuing,    Nor gaining of great nor of small,But just in the being, and doing    As we would be done by, is all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Through envy, through malice, through hating,    Against the world, early and late,No jot of our courage abating\u2014    Our part is to work and to wait.And slight is the sting of his trouble    Whose winnings are less than his worth;For he who is honest is noble,    Whatever his fortunes or birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Newark Evening Star, July 19, 1915. By Alice Cary. True worth is in being, not seeming\u2014    In doing each day that goes bySome little good\u2014not in dreaming    Of great things to do by and by.For whatever men say in blindness,    And in spite of the fancies of youth,There\u2019s nothing so kingly as kindness,    There\u2019s nothing so royal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-9558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-alice-cary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}