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There shall he patient take his seat

(As when the Death he dared),

And there await a people's feet

In the paths that he prepared.

There, till the vision he foresaw

Splendid and whole arise,

And unimagined Empires draw

To council 'neath his skies,

The immense and brooding Spirit still

Shall quicken and control.

Living he was the land, and dead,

His soul shall be her soul!





1904

"And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren and they hated him yet the more."—Genesis xxxvii. 5.

who hold the written clue

To all save all unwritten things,

And, half a league behind, pursue

The accomplished Fact with flouts and flings,

Look! To your knee your baby brings

The oldest tale since Earth began—

The answer to your worryings:

"Once on a time there was a Man."

