Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

"Finis Exoptatus (A metaphysical Song)" (24 November 1866), Fytte 8 of Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad in Eight Fyttes, as published in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867)

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