O'ERWEENING Statesmen have full long relied <br />On fleets and armies, and external wealth: <br />But from 'within' proceeds a Nation's health; <br />Which shall not fail, though poor men cleave with pride <br />To the paternal floor; or turn aside, <br />In the thronged city, from the walks of gain, <br />As being all unworthy to detain <br />A Soul by contemplation sanctified. <br />There are who cannot languish in this strife, <br />Spaniards of every rank, by whom the good <br />Of such high course was felt and understood; <br />Who to their Country's cause have bound a life <br />Erewhile, by solemn consecration, given <br />To labour and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven.<br /><br />William Wordsworth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-erweening-statesmen-have-full-long-relied/
