Miller and His Golden Dream: "With Moderate Blessings Be Content, Nor Idly Grasp at Every Shade; Peace, Competence, a Life Well Spent, Are Treasures ... More, Augments His Misery, Not His Store;"

Excerpt from Miller and His Golden Dream: "With Moderate Blessings Be Content, Nor Idly Grasp at Every Shade; Peace, Competence, a Life Well Spent, Are Treasures That Can Never Fades, and He Who Weakly Sighs for More, Augments His Misery, Not His Store;"

In the construction of the following little Poem, the Author has declined the aids of Genii, &c. - the powerful auxiliaries of her two former works, - on the belief that a moral truth requires little of artificial embellishment to render it attractive.

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