Of all his insight saw, his wisdom taught.

All office doors were closed against him—hard;

All office heads were closed against him too.

He had but worked, like others, for reward.

“The thing was all a dream.” “It would not do.”

But this was not a vaguely dreaming man,

A windbag of the known Utopian kind;

He had thought out, wrought out, in full, his plan;

'Twas the far-seeing fighting with the blind.

And the far-seeing won his way at last,