The Rhodes Memorial At Oxford the Work of Cecil Rhodes a Sonnet Sequence
The Rhodes Memorial At Oxford the Work of Cecil Rhodes a Sonnet Sequence
Watts-Dunton Theodore
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He said : " No : I don't agree with you at all. I have given my name to this great region of Rhodesia, and in two or three hundred years my name will still be there, and I shall be remembered after two or three centuries. What does it matter ? " So that with him, even then, it was only a question of degree. The last time I saw him, when the hand of death was upon him, and when sentence of death had already probably been pronounced to him, I found him in a very 9 B The Work of Cecil Rhodes diffe...rent mood. He said, "Well, after all, you are right ; everything in this world is too short, life and fame and achievement, everything is too short " ; and he gave a groan as he thought of his own career and his own ambition cut short. ' I quote this anecdote because, as the reader will perceive, the heart-thought of my sonnet-sequence is that, short as Rhodes's life was, he need not have mourned on account of its brevity ; his work was not only brilliant and glorious; it was in the deep sense complete.
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