Two shadows, face to face, in an Oxford Street,

Chambers and Huxley. “You’ll be there to-morrow.”—

“No, I leave Oxford now.”—

“The enemy means

To annihilate Darwin. You will not desert us?”—

“If you say that, I stay.”

Each to his place

Had moved in his own orbit, like a star,

Or like an atom, free-will at one with law,

In the unplanned plan of the Master-Dramatist,