hey were great, their views were leaded,

nd their deaths were triple-headed,

o they catch the eye in running through the files

Show as blazes in the mazes of the files);

or their " paramours and priests,'

nd their gross, jack-booted feasts,

nd their epoch-marking actions see the files.

Was it Bomba fled the blue Sicilian isles?

Was it Saffi a professor

nce of Oxford, brought redress or -aribaldi? Who remembers

orty-odd-year old Septembers?

nly sextons paid to dig among the files

Such as I am, born and bred among the files). ou must hack through much deposit

Fre you know for sure who was it

ame to burial with such honour in the files

Only seven seasons back beneath the files).
Very great our loss and grievous-

So our best and brightest leave us,

And it ends the Age of Giants," say the files; ll the '60-'70-'80-'90 files

The open-minded, opportunist files

Quod a Oh, my

Light

When you marvel at your lateness

In apprehending facts so plain to Smiles
(Self-helpful, wholly strenuous Samuel Smiles).
When your Imp of Blind Desire

Bids you set the Thames afire,

You'll remember men have done so-in the files. You'll have seen those flames transpire-in the files

(More than once that flood has run so-in the

files).

When the Conchimarian horns

Of the reboantic Norns

Usher gentlemen and ladies

With new lights on Heaven and Hades,

Guaranteeing to Eternity

All yesterday's modernity;

When Brocken-spectres made by

Some one's breath on ink parade by,

You've

At the

(Which

When

ery earnest and tremendous,

et not shows of shows offend us. When of everything we like we hout ecstatic:-"Quod ubique, uod ab omnibus means semper!"

h, my brother, keep your temper !

Fight your pipe and take a look along the files !

ou've a better chance to guess

t the meaning of Success

Which is Greatness-vide press)

When you've seen it in perspective in the files.

Happy is he who, bred and taught

By sleek, sufficing Circumstance-
Whose Gospel was the apparelled thought,
Whose Gods were Luxury and Chance-

With

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But

T

Ultimate issues, primal springs,

Demands, abasements, penaltiesThe imperishable plinth of things

Seen and unseen, that touch our peace.

For, though ensnaring ritual dim

His vision through the after-years, Yet virtue shall go out of him: Example profiting his peers.

With great things charged he shall not hold
Aloof till great occasion rise,

But serve, full-harnessed, as of old
The days that are the destinies.

He shall forswear and put away
The idols of his sheltered house;
And to Necessity shall pay

Unflinching tribute of his vows.

He shall not plead another's act,
Nor bind him in another's oath
To weigh the Word above the Fact,

Or make or take excuse for sloth.