Then he walked up to the desk and deposited a page torn out of his note-book.
"Here's a poem to the Victorians, sir," he said coldly.
The professor picked it up curiously while Amory backed rapidly through the door.
Here is what he had written: "Songs in the time of order You left for us to sing, Proofs with excluded middles, Answers to life in rhyme, Keys of the prison warder And ancient bells to ring, Time was the end of riddles, We were the end of time...
Here were domestic oceans And a sky that we might reach, Guns and a guarded border, Gantlets--but not to fling, Thousands of old emotions And a platitude for each, Songs in the time of order-- And tongues, that we might sing." ***** THE END OF MANY THINGS Early April slipped by in a haze--a haze of long evenings on the club veranda with the graphophone playing "Poor Butterfly" inside...

for "Poor Butterfly" had been the song of that last year.

The war seemed scarcely to touch them and it might have been one of the senior springs of the past, except for the drilling every other afternoon, yet Amory realized poignantly that this was the last spring under the old regime.
"This is the great protest against the superman," said Amory.
"I suppose so," Alec agreed.
"He's absolutely irreconcilable with any Utopia.

As long as he occurs, there's trouble and all the latent evil that makes a crowd list and sway when he talks." "And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense." "That's all.

I think the worst thing to contemplate is this--it's all happened before, how soon will it happen again?
Fifty years after Waterloo Napoleon was as much a hero to English school children as Wellington.