Living
By Our Last Ledger-Page We Ascertain
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
By our last ledger-page we ascertain
What friends have fail'd and tied, and what remain.
Content, in summing up, to find how few
Are scored for false, how many starr'd for true.
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