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Subscriber Schaye appears to be in all respects correct. The lines TIME quoted, Darius the Mede was a king and a wonder, His eye was proud and his voice was thunder...
...Prince of Wales, Britain's much-traveled "Ambassador," left England's shores to the thunder of guns, the cheers of hundreds of thousands of his father's subjects and the strains of The Girl I Left Behind Me, rendered by the Royal Marines band, on his 26,000 mile voyage to South Africa and South America (TIME, Mar. 23). At London, Premier Baldwin said good-by in a sprightly 15-minute conversation punctuated frequently by hearty laughter. Prince Henry accompanied his eldest brother to Portsmouth, but Prince George, without tonsils (TIME, Mar. 30), was not permitted by his doctors...
...proud and his voice was thunder...
...wind-torn cypresses, condors, vultures, flowers and seaweeds, soaring California mountains, the illimitable bosom of the Pacific, the Pacific groundswell, ponderous granite boulders, vast shore plains, the unthinkable bottom boundary of the oceans. He hurls his images or bites them out; he rumbles, casts spells, croons, soothes, claps out thunder, flashes naked lightning, dreams serene or troubled beauty?and with his inmost eye, contemplates the closed, unchangeable cycles of life...
...pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps for the first time in their lives the delight of great literature, the majesty of the English tongue and the might of the human imagination...