68 CASE STUDY Whatever he had done was not quite right. The Masters never failed, however weak, To know when they had sinned against the light. Can their example purify his sight? Ought he to practice Yoga, study Greek, Or bluff his way throughout with brazen cheek? Beginning with a foolish love affair After common school and rotten college, He had the patient will but not the flair To climb with quick assault the envied stair; Messed around instead with useless knowledge, And staked on politics a fatal pledge. His marriage was the worst mistake of all c Although he loved his children when they came, He spoilt them too with just that extra doll, Or discipline which drove them to the wall. His wife and changing servants did the same --A man is damned in that domestic game« He worked at various jobs and then he stopped For reasons never clear nor quite approved By those who knew; some almost said he shopped Around for dreams and projects later dropped (Though this was quite untrue); he never moved Unless he found something he might have lovedo He came to me and this is what I said: "The pattern will remain, unless you break It with a sudden jerk; but use your head. Not all returned as heroes who had tied In wanting both to have and eat the cakeo Not all who fail are counted with the fake."