Tis Looking Downward Makes One

Most Progress Is Most Failure.

Earth Being So Good, Would Heaven Seem Best?

Truth Is Truth Howe'er It Strike.

I Write From A Thorough Conviction That It Is The Duty Of Me, And With The Belief That, After Every Drawback And Shortcoming, I Do My Best, All Things Considered--that Is For Me, And, So Being, The Not Being Listened To By One Human Creature Would, I Hope, In Nowise Affect Me.

When Pain Ends, Gain Ends Too.