"I wonder if you know how much—for me!"
"I think so. I am tremendously glad about it all."
But she did not know, could not know, just how much it meant to me.
"Good night, my patriotic Muse!" I said.
"Good night, Mr. Secretary Dick!"
And so we parted on the night of my return to London.
VI
PREPARATIONS
We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town;
We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down.
Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power, with the Need,
Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to lead.