Impressions 



useless. It is always the other man who ought 

 to do this ; and the other man thinks the 

 same. He is not more capable as you suppose. 

 A universal wrong impression goes the rounds 

 and the result is ignorance where useful knowl- 

 edge might have been. Did we know the past 

 more correctly, we could the better enjoy the 

 present and take care of the future. 



There lie two ways to every end, 

 A better and a worse; 



and the better one is not to leave too much to 

 the imaginations of those who will follow us. 



Could I, from body free, in shadow lurk, 

 Methinks a useful lesson I could learn; 



Seeing my better self in love with work, 



From idle day-dreams, in disgust, would turn; 



Toiling in earnest, such a picture make, 



Would love my task for the appearance' sake. 



Just as every old town has one or more old 

 streets, so there are peculiarly old places that 

 escape for a long time the disastrous effects of 

 the march of improvement. In the old town 

 nearest by, there is a business centre Infer- 

 no 's gate, and a residential section a long 



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