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Page 1 of 11913 · PDF PAGE 5
…rtunate 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 whose artillery can over- whelm the savage hordes of impurity. We do not think any one will accuse us of flat- tery in saying that Lord Alfred Douglas is just such a person, and this is the more striking pheno- menon as it is s…
1913 · 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, …