Preaching and Practising

"In sooth we've fallen on an age of talk,We halloo to each other of reform,And make the shouts suffice."

"Nearer the starsThe world is lifted up by noble lives;It is the men who in the silence work,Nor seek the notice of the vulgar eyeThat, like the coral insect, unobserved,Piling the reef and building with its death,Isles bright as Paradise, and strong to faceThe storms of centuries, lift up the ageAbove the idle froth and foam of time."