Therefore, in this confused chaotic time on earth-- Earn the means first.

God surely will contrive Use for our earning.
Others mistrust, and say: "But time escapes; Live now or never!" He said, "What's time?
Leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever." _A Grammarian's Funeral_.
This is a sketch of his explanation of life.

The expression of it began in _Pauline_.

Had that poem been as imitative, as poor as the first efforts of poets usually are, we might leave it aside.

But though, as he said, "good draughtsmanship and right handling were far beyond the artist at that time," though "with repugnance and purely of necessity" he republished it, he did republish it; and he was right.