  PREFACE TO THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION. PREFACE TO THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION. MY J. T. HACKETT “Omne meum, nihil meum” T. FISHER UNWIN LTD First publication in Great Britain, September, 1919. Second English Edition, September, 1920. Third English Edition, January, 1921. O Memories! O Past that is! George Eliot. DEDICATED Of wounds and sore defeat I made my battle-stay; WingÈd sandals for my feet I wove of my delay; Of weariness and fear I made my shouting spear; Of loss, and, doubt, and dread, And swift oncoming doom I made a helmet for my head And a floating plume. From the shutting mist of death, From the failure of the breath I made a battle-horn to blow Across the vales of overthrow. O hearken, love, the battle-horn! The triumph clear, the silver scorn! O hearken where the echoes bring, Down the grey disastrous morn, Laughter and rallying![1] William Vaughn Moody. I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Macbeth, IV, 3. |
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