I feel, in every midge that hums,
Life, fugitive and infinite,
And suddenly the world becomes
A part of me and I of it.

-From The Outlook (London).

From Romany to Rome.

BY WALLACE IRWIN.

Upon the road to Romany

It's stay, friend, stay!

There's lots o' love and lots o' time

To linger on the way;

Poppies for the twilight,

Roses for the noon,

It's happy goes as lucky goes

To Romany in June.

But on the road to Rome-oh

It's march, man, march!

The dust is on the chariot wheels,
The sere is on the larch;

Helmets and javelins

And bridles flecked with foam

The flowers are dead, the world's ahead
Upon the road to Rome.

But oh, the road to Rome-ah,

It's fight, man, fight!

Footman and horseman

Treading left and right,

Camp-fires and watch-fires

Ruddying the gloam

The fields are gray and worn away

Along the road to Rome.

Upon the road to Romany

It's sing, boys, sing!

Tho rag and pack be on our back

We'll whistle at the King.

Wine is in the sunshine,

Madness in the moon,

And de'il may care the road we fare

To Romany in June.

Along the road to Rome, alas!

The glorious dust is whirled,
Strong hearts are fierce to see
The City of the World;
Yet footfall or bugle-call
Or thunder as ye will,
Upon the road to Romany

The birds are calling still!

-From Harper's Magazine (November).

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the people for many centuries," and where the people,
shrinking from no extravagances of finance and self-
sacrifice, have acquiesced by endless prayers, spun
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ing god complacently consenting to the deadly bore;
where polyandry commends itself to the uxorial
schemes of the women, and where men dig in the
ground for salvation, and cultivate in black holes the
companionship of devils unspeakably diabolic and
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is characteristic of the more conspicuous devotees, so
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And these were the people who, having intrenched
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their tribes an impenetrable domain of exclusiveness
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Of our author, Colonel Waddell, his comrade on the expedition, Mr. Candler, has written: "He has been known as the greatest authority on Lamaism, and his standard work on the subject, "Lamaism in Tibet," has been considered "the last word." Colonel Waddell has studied the people and the language of Tibet, from the Sikhim frontier; and in 1892 he made an attempt to reach Lhasa from the Nepal side, in the disguise of a Tibetan pilgrim, with surveying instruments secreted in prayer-wheels and false-bottomed baskets. He was even temporarily converted to Buddhism. In his pursuit of "the Tibetan Oracle of Lhasa" he was so thoroughly equipped for his researches that, according to Candler, "he could teach Lamas Lamaism."

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Altho," he writes, "my attempt to reach the mystic citadel in disguise, in 1892, failed, yet during those years of preparation I had accumulated such accurate pictures of the land that my ultimate entry into its capital, when it came, seemed but the realization of a vivid and long-cherished dream."

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all, the majestic castle of Buddha's vice-regent on earth.

That imposing pile on Portala's hill dominates the landscape, with its groves of great trees disclosing the roofs of palatial monasteries, temples, and mansions, shyly showing above the umbrage. "The first glimpse of the sacred metropolis is dramatic in its suddenness."

Outside the gate, on the sand-hills near "the holy road," was a loathsome encampment of beggars and outcasts, huddled in squalid huts built of the horns of yaks and sheep and various offas, and roofed with ragged blankets-truly an oriental" scheme" of startling contrasts and surprises.

And the Oracles and the Sorcerers-the State Oracle Royal, the popular Karmashar Oracle, and its soothsayings-that "Tibetan Oracle of Lhasa," of which Lord Curzon wrote, and which the Nineteenth Century has left to the Twentieth to explore. Every Tibetan, says Colonel Waddell, believes as implicitly in the Oracle, as a guide in his daily affairs, as ever did the Greeks and Romans. Many of the necromantic performances of the professional wizards recall the scene of the Witches' cauldron in " Macbeth." In

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