NOW all the truth is out, br Be secret and take defeat br From any brazen throat, br For how can you compete, br Being honour bred, with one br Who, were it proved he lies, br Were neither shamed in his own br Nor in his neighbours' eyes? br Bred to a harder thing br Than Triumph, turn away br And like a laughing string br Whereon mad fingers play br Amid a place of stone, br Be secret and exult, br Because of all things known br That is most difficult.