Neighbours

"Beauty Sports"

• The man that is open of heart to his neighbour,
• And stops to consider his likes and dislikes,
• His blood shall be wholesome whatever his labour,
• His luck shall be with him whatever he strikes.
• The Splendour of Morning shall duly possess him,
• That he may not be sad at the falling of eve.
• And, when he has done with mere living—God bless him!—
• A many shall sigh, and one Woman shall grieve!
• But he that is costive of soul toward his fellow,
• Through the ways, and the works, and the woes of this life,
• Him food shall not fatten, him drink shall not mellow;
• And his innards shall brew him perpetual strife.
• His eye shall be blind to God's Glory above him;
• His ear shall be deaf to Earth's Laughter around;
• His Friends and his Club and his Dog shall not love him;
• And his Widow shall skip when he goes underground!