To Live For A Time Close To

You May Hear People Say That Submarines Have Done Away With The Battleship, And That Aircraft Have Annulled The Mastery Of The Sea. That Is What Our Pessimists Say. But Do You Imagine That The Clumsy Submarine Or The Fragile Aeroplane Is Really The Last Word Of Science?

I Once Played The Chief Part In A Rather Exciting Business Without Ever Once Budging From London . And The Joke Of It Was That The Man Who Went Out To Look For Adventure Only Saw A Bit Of The Game, And I Who Sat In My Chambers Saw It All And Pulled The Strings. 'they Also Serve Who Only Stand And Wait,' You Know.

Without Humility There Can Be No Humanity.

And Where The Deepest Current Crawls/ Like Thistledown The Dainty Fly Falls./ Then From The Depths A Silver Gleam/ Quick Flashes, Like A Jewel Bright./ Up Through The Waters Of The Stream/ An Instant Visible To Sight/ As Lightning Cleaves To Sombre Sky/ A Rainbow Rises To The Fly.

I Would Have Been Content With Any Job However Thankless, In Any Quarter However Remote, If I Had A Chance Of Making A Corner Of The Desert Blossom And The Solitary Place Glad.