Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.