So  the  poet  and  teacher  speaks  aloud  to  all
prostrated  by  sorrow,  failure,  disappointment,  or
loss,  of  "the  mighty  hopes  which  make  us  men."
These  it  cannot  suit  him  to  forget,  and  his  pulses
begin  to  beat  again  "  for  other  friends  that  once
he  met."


io8  Poets  in  the  Pulpit.
Here  is  struck  the  true  note  of  the  true  heart
of  a  man  or  woman  arising  out  of  the  depths  of
despair,  and  out  of  the  paralysis  of  grief,  to  some-
thing like  a  healthy  perception  of  human  life  again.
