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The Writing On the Ground

But need I say more? These 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, …