There's A Joy Without Canker Or Cark,

Among The Various Forms Of Science Which Are Reaching And Affecting The New Popular Tradition, We Have Reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly Enough, Anthropology Has Herself But Recently Emerged From That Limbo Of The Unrecognised In Which Psychical Research Is Pining.

Again, If There Are Really No Fairies, Why Do People Believe In Them, All Over The World? The Ancient Greeks Believed, So Did The Old Egyptians, And The Hindoos, And The Red Indians, And Is It Likely, If There Are No Fairies, That So Many Different Peoples Would Have Seen And Heard Them?

There's A Joy Without Canker Or Cark, There's A Pleasure Eternally New, 't Is To Gloat On The Glaze And The Mark Of China That's Ancient And Blue.

And Remember That The Danger Which Is Most To Be Feared Is Never The Danger We Are Most Afraid Of.

O Grant Me A House By The Beach Of A Bay, Where The Waves Can Be Surly In Winter, And Play With The Sea-weed In Summer, Ye Bountiful Powers! And I'd Leave All The Hurry, The Noise, And The Fray, For A House Full Of Books, And A Garden Of Flowers.