THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS

All that thou dost be right--to that alone confine thy view,
And halt within the certain rule--the All that's right to do!
True zeal _the what already is_ would sound and perfect see;
False zeal would sound and perfect make the something that's to be!

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TO ASTRONOMERS

Of the Nebulæ and planets do not babble so to me;
What! is Nature only mighty inasmuch as you can see?
Inasmuch as you can measure her immeasurable ways,
As she renders world on world, sun and system to your gaze?
Though through space your object be the Sublimest to embrace,
Never the Sublime abideth--where you vainly search--in space!

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THE BEST GOVERNED STATE

How the best state to know?--It is found out,
Like the best women--that least talked about.

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