A respectable merchant of London having become embarrassed in his
circumstances, and his misfortunes being one day the subject of
conversation in the Royal Exchange, several persons expressed the great
sympathy they felt for him; whereupon a foreigner who was present, said,
"I feel five hundred pounds for him; what do _you_ feel?"
1870
A clasp of hands will oft reveal
A sympathy that makes us feel
Ourselves again; we lose our care:
And in our heart's first glad rebound
At tender sympathy new found,
The world once more seems bright and fair.
1871