Yet there are people who would prefer the willow to the oak." "And you couldn't help such people, now could you?
You might be sorry for them.

But there--what could you do ?" And John said softly, "What can we do o'er whom the unbeholden Hangs in a night, wherewith we dare not cope; What but look sunward, and with faces golden, Speak to each other softly of our Hope ?".