Flashed on him....

In the strange ironical scheme

Wherein he moved, of the Master-Dramatist,

It was his own ambiguous “chance” that slipt

A book of Malthus into his drowsy hand

And drew his drowsy eyes down to that law

Of struggling men and nations.

Was it “chance”

That in this intricate torch-race tossed him there

Light from one struggling on an alien track