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I don't know how those two little books got in there. They are Henley's "Song of the Sword" and "Book of Verses." They ought to be over yonder in the rather limited Poetry Section. Perhaps it is that I like his work so, whether it be prose or verse, and so have put them ready to my hand. He was a remarkable1 man, a man who was very much greater than his work, great as some of his work was. I have seldom known a personality more magnetic and stimulating2. You left his presence, as a battery leaves a generating station, charged up and full. He made you feel what a lot of work there was to be done, and how glorious it was to be able to do it, and how needful to get started upon it that very hour. With the frame and the vitality3 of a giant he was cruelly bereft4 of all outlet5 for his strength, and so distilled6 it off in hot words, in warm sympathy, in strong prejudices, in all manner of human and stimulating emotions. Much of the time and energy which might have built an imperishable name for himself was spent in encouraging others; but it was not waste, for he left his broad thumb-mark upon all that passed beneath it. A dozen second-hand7 Henleys are fortifying8 our literature to-day.
Alas9 that we have so little of his very best! for that very best was the finest of our time. Few poets ever wrote sixteen consecutive10 lines more noble and more strong than those which begin with the well-known quatrain—
"Out of the night that covers me,
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