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ON A PORTRAIT OF FARADAY.

Was ever man so simple and so sage,

So crowned and yet so careless of a prize!

Great Faraday, who made the world so wise,

And loved the labour better than the wage.

And this you say is how he looked in age,

With that strong brow and these great humble eyes

That seem to look with reverent surprise

On all outside himself. Turn o’er the page,

Recording Angel, it is white as snow.

Ah God, a fitting messenger was he

To show Thy mysteries to us below.

Child as he came has he returned to Thee.

Would he could come but once again to show

The wonder-deep of his simplicity.

Cosmo Monkhouse.