So strange are the sights that I've seen,

And mighty's the mind of the mortal

Who knows what I mean.

Walter Parke.

A SONG OF RENUNCIATION

IN the days of my season of salad,

When the down was as dew on my cheek,

And for French I was bred on the ballad,

For Greek on the writers of Greek,—

Then I sang of the rose that is ruddy,