Lament of the Eminent One.

Henry Irving

Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!

This is mistaken man: to night he puts forth

The jingling Bells; then Charles; then the mad Dane,

And bears his blushing honors thick upon him:

Then comes a sudden frost, a fearful frost;

And,—when he thinks, good easy man full surely

His eminence is admitted—stops his flight