Front matter
Reading edition
J. T. HACKETT
“Omne meum, nihil meum”
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
First publication in Great Britain, September, 1919.
Second English Edition, September, 1920.
Third English Edition, January, 1921.
O Memories! O Past that is! George Eliot.
DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND RICHARD HODGSON WHO HAS PASSED OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE
Of wounds and sore defeat I made my battle-stay; Wingèd sandals for my feet I wove of my delay; Of weariness and fear I made my shouting spear; Of loss, and, doubt, and dread, And swift oncoming doom I made a helmet for my head And a floating plume. From the shutting mist of death, From the failure of the breath I made a battle-horn to blow Across the vales of overthrow. O hearken, love, the battle-horn! The triumph clear, the silver scorn! O hearken where the echoes bring, Down the grey disastrous morn, Laughter and rallying![1] William Vaughn Moody.
I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Macbeth, IV, 3.