Robert Reid, Fleur de Lis, 1895-1900 Courtesy davidsartoftheday.blogspot.com
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again–
So the chase takes up one’s life, that’s all.
–Robert Browning.
