And fresh from his spacious years in India, where everything is old in spirit, where more often than not the beggar is a sage,to encounter in this land of beauty, a people who were but babes in the thought of Godgave to Bedient the painful sense that his inner life was dissipating.

" "Tut, tut," quoth Robin, "only babes shoot at garlands hereabouts.

"Sweetly as babes sleep," she sank into the embrace of death.

I see thy graceful babes caress thee, I mark thy wise, maternal care, And sadly do the words impress me, The magic wordsthat thou art fair.

Gives to her babes the self-devoted wife, To her fond husband liberty and life!