CHARLES REX

BY ETHEL M. DELL

AUTHOR OF THE TOP OF THE WORLD, THE LAMP IN THE DESERT, THE HUNDREDTH
CHANCE, Etc.

1922

I Dedicate This Book To G. T. S. In Remembrance of A Winter Day




"When half-gods go, the gods arrive."
R. W. Emerson


Not with the clash of trumpets
And clangour of gates thrown wide,
As when the eager crowds press round
To see the half-gods ride;
But like a bird at even
Silently winging home,
A message came from the darkness
To say that the gods had come.

And the half-gods scoffed in the temple
Which custom had bid them hold--
Sin and Success and Pleasure