“The children play
At hide and seek
About the monument
To Speke.
And why should the dead
Explorer mind
Who has nothing to seek
And nothing to find?”

—  Humbert Wolfe

"Speke", from Kensington Gardens (London: Ernest Benn, [1924] 1927) p. 50.

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