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Show ONE GUESS. (From the poems of Rudyard Kipling) HE single handed met and t'-rew magicians, armies, ogres, kings; He, lonely 'mid his doubting crew, In all the loneliness of wings; lie fed the flame, ho filled the springs, He locked the ranks, he launched the van Straight at the grinning teeth of things. Once on a time there was a man. The peace of shocked foundations flew Before his ribald questionings; Ho broke the oracles in two And bared the paltry wires and strings. Ho headed the desert wanderings; He led his soul, his cause, his clan A little from the ruck of things Once on a time there was a man. A bolt Is fallen from the blue, A wakoned realm full circled swings Whore Dothan'3 dreamer dreams anew Of vast and forborne harvestings; And unto him an empire olings That grips the purpose of his plan. My lords, what think ye of these things? Once in our time is there a man? |