40 ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS
All You Have at the End
GIVE honour and love for evermore
To this great man gone to rest;
Peace on the dim Plutonian shore.
Rest in the land of the blest.
I reckon him greater than any man
That ever drew sword in war ;
I reckon him nobler than king or khan*
Braver and better by far.
And wisest he in this whole wide land
Of hoarding till bent and grey,
For all you can hold in your cold dead hand
Is what you have given away,
So whether to wander the stars or to rest
For ever hushed and dumb,
He gave with a zest and he gave his best:
Give him the best to come.
Joaquin Miller on Peter Cooper, inventor
and philanthropist, who died in 1883
The Mystic and the Beggar
A book of the fourteenth century tells this
conversation between a Mystic and et Begg&r
give you a good day, my friend, said the Mystic,
I thank God I never had a bad day, said the Beggar.
God give you a happy life, said the Mystic*
I thank God I am never unhappy, said the Beggar*
But who are you ? asked the Mystic, surprised by his reply,
I am a king, said the Beggar.
But where is your kingdom? said the Mystic,
To whom the Beggar once again answered^ In my own heart.
The Something that Comes to the Aid of a Man
ABAPTUEE may visit a man suddenly faced with peril and oppor-
tunity in a battle or an accident. He is released—that is all
you can say. Fear and desire, his two keepers through life, to
preserve and enchain him, are suddenly gone, and he goes to self-
sacrifice as lightly as a child draws its breath, with so perfect a
freedom from ail sense of effort, danger, or pain that presently he is
surprised and abashed, and feels like a secret impostor when people
credit him with heroism. c, E* Montague