Thursday, July 26, 2012

Samuel Johnson For Our Overly Political Times

"How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy."


The poetry is Oliver Goldsmith's, but Johnson wrote it.