IIQ

To put it in a nutshell, Nizamat Jung's life
symbolizes a sincere approach to realities—an
endeavour tojpe good and to do good while de-
testing the idea of being talked about. Not to
have sought power, position and wealth though
they were not beyond his reach, is to have
attained real success in life. Nizamat Jung can
certainly lay claim to this.

" Wherefore a man should be of good cheer,
about his soul/' said his master, Socrates,
" if in his life he has despised all bodily pleasures
and ornaments as alien to her and to the per-
fecting of the life that he has chosen. He
will have zealously applied himself to the under-
standing and having adorned his soul not with
any foreign ornaments but with her own pro-
per jewels—temperance, justice, courage, nob-
ility and truth—he awaits thus prepared, his
journey."

Dreams of my youth, they fade but cannot die ;
Theirs are the songs that, silenced, echo still
Within my heart, its twilight gloom to thrill
With yearning hopes that waken but a sigh !
Ah, would they could regain their native sky
And the void air with radiant visions fill 1
Broken the wizard wand and lost the skill
That could awake them all where low entombed
they lie I
They lie entombed, those bright-winged visions all,
Where sleeps the splendour of Life's Yesterdays—
With vanished suns, and moons, and faded bays,
And all the buried pomp of bower and hall.