...that keep their place By their own light, and watch things roll And stand, have light for any soul. "Save his own soul he hath no star, And sinks, except...his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide. "Save his own soul's light overhead None leads him, and none ever led. "To the hatred of the dynasties...

...Sustains the indomitable light Whence only man hath strength to steer Or helm to handle without fear. Save his own soul's light overhead, None leads him,...lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace S2 And spirit till his turn be done, And light of face from each man's face In whom the light of trust...

...drives on toward the red Vast void of sunset hailed from far, To the equal waters of the dead ; 40. Save his own soul he hath no star, And sinks, except...his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide. THE INNER LIGHT IS BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN 1. The soul itself is its own witness and its own refuge....

...drives on toward the red Vast void of sunset bailed from far. To the equal waters of the dead ; Save bis own soul he hath no star, And sinks, except his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide.* It is Swinburne who cries : " Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things." t But...

...Sustains the indomitable light Whence only man hath strength to steer Or helm to handle without fear. Save his own soul's light overhead, None leads him,...fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girded loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be...

...that drives on toward the red Vast void of sunset hailed from far, To the equal waters of the dead ; S Save his own soul he hath no star, ' ./' And sinks,...in middle turn of tide. No blast of air or fire of su Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes...

...passage, the words by their sounds suggest time and travel, — " Across birth's hidden harbour bar, Past youth where shoreward shallows are, . Through...his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide. "' Contrast with these soothing lines, expressing perfectly the democracy of death, the individualism...

...his own soul's light overhead None leads him, and none ever led, Across birth's hidden Harbor-bar, Past youth where, shoreward, shallows are Through...And sinks, except his own soul guide, Helmless in the middle turn of tide. He remained among us, working to the last, fighting back the weakness of age...

...Sustains the indomitable light Whence only man hath strength to steer Or helm to handle without fear. 150 Save his own soul's light overhead, None leads him,...his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide. 160 No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run i An Edonian, or Thraclan, divinity,...

...red Vast void of sunset hailed from far, To the equal waters of the dead; Save his own soul he has no star. And sinks, except his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide. These are not the idle words of a thoughtless singer of love-lays, and no one can read them, the bitter...