OCR Text |
Show WHOM OTHERS ENVY. Through year of pat'ent toll and sacil lre He climbed Famo'B ladder, round by round Nor rested till his bund had graBped the prize For which net 1 d. Self-made.self -crowned He stoo.l among his lofty dreams, and weighed Their w irth, together with the price he paid. A millionaire ! he bartered love for this, Love binds fie wings of him who would arise. , Ee rose unfettered. Now wlt'.i famished eyes He gazes on another's Paradise, While Memory taunts him with a shy, sweet kiss, A frightened, fluttering thing, the fl?st,the last No childish vo:c3s echo through his past: He wears his liurels, but he pal 1 their price, i Rote Ha t ieick Thorpe, in LippincoW: |