Aspirations pure and high —
Strength to do and to endure —
Heir of all the Ages, I —
Lo! I am no longer poor!


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.


Aspirations pure and high — Strength to do and to endure — Heir of all the Ages, I — Lo! I am no longer poor!

Aspirations pure and high — Strength to do and to endure — Heir of all the Ages, I — Lo! I am no longer poor!

Aspirations pure and high — Strength to do and to endure — Heir of all the Ages, I — Lo! I am no longer poor!

Aspirations pure and high — Strength to do and to endure — Heir of all the Ages, I — Lo! I am no longer poor!