Note 135 — IV. EDUCATION FOR RICH AND POOR.
Reading edition
The following are the lines specially alluded to:
Shall the strong full-flowing river, bearing on its mighty breast Half the wealth of some proud nation, precious spoils of East and West, Shall it mourn its mountain cradle and its infant heathery bed, All its youthful songs and dances, as adown the hills it sped, When by it in yon great city half a million mouths are fed?
[Y. M. A. Magazine, October, 1879.]