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['I think that in certain respects the 'Waster' is one of the / great forces of Empire; it is in him that the spirit of the / Elizabethan gentleman adventurer survives most vigorously. To me / the waster is a peculiarly English product; in many respects he / appeals to me more than any one in the community. ' -- Sir HERBERT / TREE.]
When others praise the pious, / My own response is faint; / I feel no morbid bias / In favour of the saint. / My paeans, rather, let me raise / To laud the 'Waster' and his ways!