Across some far-off ghostly main,

They haunt the chambers of the brain,

And kiss their fingers to the watchman, Sleep!


CARDINAL NEWMAN.

To the last I never recognized the hold I had over young men.”—Apologia pro Vita Sua.

NO more the sun may know the strength it hath

To stir the bark in spring with quickening blood:

No more a storm controlleth its great wrath,