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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Humility

Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885)

TO me men are for what they are,

They wear no masks with me.

I never sickened at the jar

Of ill-tuned flattery;

I never mourned affection lent

In folly or in blindness;—

The kindness that on me is spent

Is pure, unasking kindness.