Mankind — The Race Would

To All, To Each, A Fair Good-night, And Pleasing Dreams, And Slumbers Light.

Certainly," Quoth Athelstane, "women Are The Least To Be Trusted Of All Animals, Monks And Abbots Excepted.

Sordid Selfishness Doth Contract And Narrow Our Benevolence, And Cause Us, Like Serpents, To Infold Ourselves Within Ourselves, And To Turn Out Our Stings To The Entire World Besides.

Just At The Age 'twixt Boy And Youth, When Thought Is Speech, And Speech Is Truth.

Look Back, And Smile On Perils Past.