Bones in a matting rolled;

No wrong or right, the loss is slight,

The world-old fooled of gold.

“The legion that never was listed”—

The glamor of words in a song,

The lure of the strange and exotic,

The drift of the few from the throng;

The past that was never resisted

In the ebb or the flow of desire,

The foolish, the sordid, ambitious,