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.