In the thread—INDIVIDUALITY.

LIFE! What marvellous throbs and throes

The Alchemy of EXISTENCE knows;

What "weals within wheels" (and woes without woahs!)

Give sophistry a handle;

Though Hare himself could be dipped in the well

Where Truth's proverbial waters dwell,

It would throw no more light on the vital spell

Than a dip in the Polytechnic bell,

Or the dip—a ha'penny candle.