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I rove and I range o'er the moon-ridden deep, 



That, as it tugs at its chain, 

 Hunches up like a wild beast its back in a heap ; 



Or immured in the granite's grain 

 I laugh in the lightning's face, ere I leap 



Down the dangling ropes of the rain ; 

 Through the whirling tide of the torrent I glide 



To enrich the distant plain. 



I live in the heart of the budding plant ; 



I join in the hymn of praise 

 That its every leaf and blossom chaunt 



To the author of its days, 

 The Sun-god ; I share in its passionate prayer 



For consummate beauty and grace. 



I lie on the lips of the lisping babe, 



I nest in the breast of the sage, 

 And the thoughts that sweep through a conqueror's brain 



And a kingdom's doom presage, 

 With their tingling message my being thrill, 



Ere the world of its fate is aware. 

 And when life has fled, in his body dead 



I lie quiet, and lying there 

 The stirrings and strife of a new-born life 



Awakening around me I hear. 



I steal and I slip through Death's ogre-like grip 



That crunches all else to dust ; 

 And I burn like a star to my brethren afar, 



With a sheen that can never rust ; 

 Though a grain of sand were a Universe 



To my infinitesimal realm, 

 If my orbit should swerve but a hair's-breadth's curve, 



Every planet must alter its helm. 



Mountains may crumble and continents shrink, 



And Ocean's bed run dry, 

 Planets be shattered, the sun go out, 



But I, I can never die. 

 At one with Matter, that is flesh of my flesh, 



With Energy, soul of my soul, 

 I unite with all, or slip through their mesh, 



In my quest from pole to pole. 



Cloudesley Brereton. 



The British Science Guild 



The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the British Science Guild was held at the 

 Mansion House on April 30, the Lord Mayor presiding over a very large and 

 distinguished audience. 



Lord Sydenham, the new President of the Guild, delivered an address on 

 " National Reconstruction," in which he referred to the lack of appreciation of the 

 importance of science and scientific research which lay at the root of so many of 



