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Page 1 of 11913 · PDF PAGE 4
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, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…ld be welcome of the stage To amuse and to instruct the age— A shining light in Opera-Bouffe : Giton, and Judas, and Tartufe! To which I need only append one brief allusion to cold evidence. A GALAHAD IN GOMORRAH. It is very fortunate that even in times when the greatest laxity of morals prevails, in England at least there is always found some austere and noble soul to protest against decadence ; to be a witness in the midst of corruption, that there is a standard of pure and lofty thought, a City of the Soul, forti- fied against all evil, and …