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XXV



Let those who are in favour with their stars

Of public honour and proud titles boast,

Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars

Unlook\'d for joy in that I honour most.

Great princes\' favourites their fair leaves spread

But as the marigold at the sun\'s eye,

And in themselves their pride lies buried,

For at a frown they in their glory die.

The painful warrior famoused for fight,

After a thousand victories once foil\'d,

Is from the book of honour razed quite,

And all the rest forgot for which he toil\'d:

Then happy I, that love and am belov\'d,

Where I may not remove nor be remov\'d.

 	--William Shakespeare

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot