"The goods of this life, its glories and riches, are but lent to us; The substance is but an illusory shadow, and the things of today shall change on the coming of the morrow. Then gather the fairest flowers from the gardens, to bind round thy brow, and seize the joys of the present ere they perish." In the poetic thoughts which these lines represent we have the reflection of a mind endowed with beauty and simplicity--attributes of greatness; and, though surrounded by the darkness of ignorance and superstition, the man who possessed it lived to honor the high position he was born to fill, that of A Prince of Anahuac. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Prince of Anahuac, by James A. Porter