_Ingredients Of Greatness_

THE style of man I'd like to be, If I could have my way, Would be a sort of pot-pourri Of Poe and Thackeray;

Of Horace, Edison, and Lamb; Of Keats and Washington, Gérôme and blest Omar Khayyám, And R. L. Stevenson;

Of Kipling and the Bard of Thrums, And Bonaparte the great-- If I were these, I'd snap my thumbs Derisively at Fate.