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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: he is best known, he rings the changes on names that once
stood for beautiful and queenly women, and are now no more
than letters and a legend. "Where are the snows of yester
year?" runs the burden. And so, in another not so famous, he
passes in review the different degrees of bygone men, from
the holy Apostles and the golden Emperor of the East, down to
the heralds, pursuivants, and trumpeters, who also bore their
part in the world's pageantries and ate greedily at great
folks' tables: all this to the refrain of "So much carry the
winds away!" Probably, there was some melancholy in his mind
for a yet lower grade, and Montigny and Colin de Cayeux
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