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Words halt behind thought and feeling. After vision and inspiration have been aroused by experience, even the best poetry may seem lame. But Sorley was conscious of another reason why "Beauty is better not expressed." He knew that it would not be welcomed. He had reached that stage when the soul reacts against parents, masters and the world that has fostered it. He was a rebel, an unusually clear-eyed and affectionate rebel, who did not only feel that things were wrong, but could point them out with un unerring finger.

O come and see, it's such a sight,

So many boys all doing right:

To see them underneath the yoke,

Blindfolded by the elder folk,

Move at a most impressive rate

Along the way that is called straight.

O, it is comforting to know

They're in the way they ought to go. 58