DIFFERENCES OF OPINION
Some men may differ from our creed,—
Give our good advice small heed.
Some men may not be our way of thinking.
But if they are honest they surely should be frank,
And not behind one’s back, go winking, blinking!
And say, “behold! a crank—there goes a crank!”
Or else hide in a crowd and yell:
“An infidel! An infidel!
A ski-shod pilgrim, coasting blindly down the road to hell.”
Fellow—churlish fellow, if thou never cans’t be joyous,
Why with constant fretting thus wilfully annoy us?
Does thy sorrow so need company
That thou wouldst meanly pester those who would gladly comfort thee?
How selfish, then—how unkindly such must be
As would wish to force unwilling ones to share with them their self-imposed misery.