“Round about one fiery centre
wayward thoughts like moths revolve;”
We cannot write a description of a horse-race without letting them come in, without calling our description by a name expressive of them—“Ex fumo dare lucem:”
“Till the good is brought forth from evil,
as day is brought forth from night.—
Vain dreams! for our fathers cherished
high hopes in the days that were;
and these men wondered and perished,
nor better than these we fare;
And our due at least is their due,