THE HIGHER ALTRUISM.
The conduct of myself is- what ? A bagatelle# a trifle, not A matter for persistent care, But something which, when I. can spare A minute, may perhaps be scanned. With profit® On the other hand l.The conduct of my friends, my neighbours Demands my best, untiring labours. My ways, alasj are fixed, were fixed When God first took the trowel and mixed t The mud of which he fashioned man. A part of tho predestined plan , Fate ties my hands? I cannot move tExcept in the appointed gAve. To grumble argues little wit; I see my weird and bow to it. But none the less can I descry My neighbours faults with half an. eye. His little weaknesses I see, And recommend the remedy* And strive by every moans to raise My neighbour into wiser ways. Nay, more, with other folk I run * His foibles over, one by one. Till all believe e a ch limitation And pine for his regeneration. So pure a joy is self-negation. ->
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Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 5, 9 July 1943, Page 5
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