CONFERENCES ON BOOKS AND MEN [Beeching, H. C. (Henry Charles) BY THE AUTHOR OF PAGES FROM A PRIVATE DIARY LONDON SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE 1900 (All rights reserved) BUHTIGRAD 4202 431 d'art 10120106 DEDICATED WITH RESPECTFUL ADMIRATION TO THE IN that old spring when I was young, Our songs were all of Oxford's bliss, Since then full twenty years are sped, And most are married, some are dead; Some sit as ministers of state, And some as priests beg at their gate. In all, the pulses fainter beat Yet still their ink will flush to flame |