Note 122 — THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XXV., No. 150.—SEPTEMBER, 1877.
Reading edition
“Constant I praise her, but resign
With equal mind her gifts.
When, swift deserting me and mine,
Her ready wing she lifts,
And, wrapped up in my virtue, wait
Fair Poverty’s undower’d estate.”
—Horat. Carm. iii. 29.
The original of the line italicized Pitt modestly omitted.