God knows it, I am with you. If to prize <br />Those virtues, priz'd and practis'd by too few, <br />But priz'd, but lov'd, but eminent in you, <br />Man's fundamental life: if to despise <br />The barren optimistic sophistries <br />Of comfortable moles, whom what they do <br />Teaches the limit of the just and true-- <br />And for such doing have no need of eyes: <br />If sadness at teh long heart-wasting show <br />Wherein earth's great ones are disquieted: <br />If thoughts, not idle, while before me flow <br />The armies of the homeless and unfed:-- <br />If these are yours, if this is what you are, <br />Then am I yours, and what you feel, I share.<br /><br />Matthew Arnold<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-republican-friend/
