Sententiæ

If the father’s bankrupt, and the sons fail, Blaming it on their own bad start, Say the father should have gone to gaol, Forgetting their grandfather’s part. So with all centuries of blame Fathers by their children cursed, Say that all the trouble came From Eve and Adam first. Both wrong: are wronged. But we are wronged the most. Their life was deep, but only deep, immersed. We fathom further, deep enough to boast We know a worse beneath our father’s worst. Cambridge Review, 52/1290 (10 June 1931), 493.