18 MAY 1907, Page 16

POETRY.

LORD CROMER

(British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, 1883-1907). PATIENCE, begotten of the farseeing mind,

Subduing the strong spirit's inward flame,

Is crowned at last. To-day a great man's name Is graven on the charter he designed

Of freedom to the poor, the maimed, the blind, Who bore for ages Egypt's yoke of shame.

The master-builder of new Egypt's fame Lives in her heart, —a memory enshrined. If ever rest from toil were nobly earned, 'Tie thine, Imperial Consul, who thro' stress Of war and jarring councils bast discerned, And taught a land in darkness to confess, The truth for which heroic Gordon burned, That paths of peace are paths of righteousness.

G. H. TREVOR.