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 What the Moon Saw

(See pages 335, 599, 672)

Two statesmen met by moonlight. Their ease was partly feigned. They glanced about the prairie, Their faces were constrained. In various ways aforetime They had misled the state, Yet did it so politely Their henchmen thought them great. They sat beneath a hedge and spake No word, but had a smoke. A satchel passed from hand to hand. Next day the deadlock broke.

Portrait of a Supreme Court Judge

(See pages 42, 418, 515)

How well this figure represents the Law— This pose of neuter Justice, sterile Cant; This Roman Emperor with the iron jaw, Wrapped in the black silk of a maiden-aunt.