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1913 · PDF PAGE 3

The Writing On the Ground

…ling creature (would we could hope him to be mere victim of Religious mania!) i vilifying his dead friend, seeking to right himself with Heaven.— Oh, fears of Hell and hopes of Paradise!” It has its grimly humorous aspect. * “The First Stone,”’ by T. W. H. Crosland. 3

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1913 · PDF PAGE 4

The Writing On the Ground

…hese few verses, briefly and with more restraint that I feel able to use, sum up my thesis. A SLIM GILT SOUL.* Few men are given, ‘twixt heaven and hell, ‘To play one part supremely well. On all time's tablets there are few Who make a first-rate show of two, While those who perfectly play three We knew not, until you were he. For what were lovelier on the lawn Than you, pearl-naked to the dawn, Wrapped in a scarlet dressing-gown Not thirty miles from London town, The " observed of all observers ""—save That Scotland Yard, serene and suav When t…

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