LXVIII ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



And wrought with weeping and lauglitor, 



And fashioned with loathing and love, 

 With life before and after 



And death beneath and above. 

 For a day and a night and a morrow, 



That his strength might endure for a span 

 With travail and heavy sorrow, 



The holy spirit of man. 



The holy spirit of man! ! Holy in its capacity, in its possibility; 

 nay, more, in its ultimate destiny. The failures, the sorrows, the joys, 

 the triumphs, of the " holy spirit of man '' — these are the subject matter 

 of literature. 



