text:  More than the ghosts of duns departed perhaps unpaid; more than the heart-burnings of that visionary fellowship for which we were beaten (we verily believe unfairly) by a neck; more than that loved and lost ideal of first class which we deserved but did not get (the opinions of our examiners not coinciding in that point with our own;) yes more than all these come forcibly to many minds the self-accusing silent voice that whispers of time wasted and talents misapplied--kind advice which the heat of youth misconstrued or neglected--jewels of price that once lay strewed upon the golden sands of life then wantonly disregarded or picked up but to be flung away and which the tide of advancing years has covered from our view for ever--blessed opportunities of acquiring wisdom human and divine which never can return