Consult Duty Not Events.

Consult Duty Not Events.

Ah What Avails The Sceptred Race, Ah What The Form Divine! What Every Virtue, Every Grace! Rose Aylmer, All Were Thine. Rose Aylmer, Whom These Wakeful Eyes May Weep, But Never See, A Night Of Memories And Of Sighs I Consecrate To Thee.

Ridicule Has Followed The Vestiges Of Truth, But Never Usurped Her Place.

I Strove With None, For None Was Worth My Strife. Nature I Loved And, Next To Nature, Art: I Warm'd Both Hands Before The Fire Of Life; It Sinks, And I Am Ready To Depart.

Great Men Lose Somewhat Of Their Greatness By Being Near Us; Ordinary Men Gain Much.