• Author: Unknown
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 6
• Page Number:
• Date: 9 5 1917
• Tags:
• poetry
• Goethe

HAVE A HEART

Persuasion, friend, comes not by wit or art;

Hard study never made the matter clearer.

'Tis the life fountain in the speaker’s heart.

Sends forth the streams which melt the rav- ished hearer.

Then work away for life; pile book on book,

Line upon line, and precept on example.

The eager multitude may gape and look,

And fools may think your stock of wisdom ample.

But would you touch the heart? method known,

My worthy friend, is first to have one of your own.

The only

—Translation from Goethe.