Contented in my humble State, <br />I look with Pity on the Great; <br />Who only Birth, or Wealth, respect, <br />And treat true Merit with neglect. <br /> <br />O Pow'r supreme! let me implore <br />Some Little from thy boundless Store! <br />Give me a constant, small Support, <br />Without the Plague of paying Court! <br />Let none but Fools, who pine to rise, <br />Be curs'd to bow, where they despise.<br /><br />Mary Barber<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/occasion-d-by-seeing-the-honourable-treat-a-person-of-merit-with-insolence/
