18 Self Psychology and the Problem of Suicide

“R.C.”

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown.

Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed.

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,