Chapter 7: VII

VII Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised With idiot moons and stars retracting stars? Creep thou between—thy coming’s all unnoised. Heaven hath her high, as Earth her baser, wars. Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fray (By Adam’s fathers’ own sin bound alway); Peer up, draw out thy horoscope and say Which planet mends thy threadbare fate or mars! Sir John Christie In the afternoon the red-faced schoolmaster told Kim that he…