Great is the game they enter in,—
Rouge et Noir on a giant scale,—
Red with blood and black with sin,
Where many must lose and few may win,
And the players never fail!
Said the strong children to the weaker ones,
“See, ye are many, and we are but few!
The mass of all the counters ye divide,
But few remain to share upon our side.
Play—as we do!”