Beyond the Rocks

And Captain Fitzgerald wondered if he were mad or what he could mean,

as he watched him stride away down the street.

But when he told his wife, she understood, for she had just learned from

Hector the whole story.

And perhaps--who knows? Far away in Shadowland Josiah heard those words,

"There lived no greater gentleman." And if he did--they fell like balm

on his sad soul.