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124 The easy "O King, live for ever" files).

It is good to read a little in the files;

'Tis a sure and sovereign balm

Unto philosophic calm,

Yea, and philosophic doubt when Life beguiles.

When you know Success is Greatness,

When you marvel at your lateness

In apprehending facts so plain to Smiles

(Self-helpful, wholly strenuous Samuel Smiles).

When your Imp of Blind Desire

Bids you set the Thames afire,

You'll remember men have done so—in the files.

You'll have seen those flames transpire—in the files

(More than once that flood has run so—in the files).

When the Conchimarian horns

Of the reboantic Norns

Usher gentlemen and ladies

With new lights on Heaven and Hades,

Guaranteeing to Eternity

All yesterday's modernity;

When Brocken-spectres made by

Some one's breath on ink parade by,