Oh hated envy! 'tis thine to criticise
The well-meant efforts of the good and wise.
To blight the hopes of him whose aim is higher
Than thou thyself wouldst venture to aspire;
To cast a slur upon each honest deed,
And grudgingly allow the well-earned meed;
Most reprehensible, in great minds seen;
Most lamentable, in the weak and mean;
Thou art the foster-mother of foul hate
That scoffs because it cannot imitate.—
Poems
Oh hated envy! 'tis thine to criticise...
From the January 1893 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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