BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
VERSES NEW AND OLD. ~: '. MY CALIFORNIA I/ADT. ; No lady of sorrow and sadness, No dolorous lady of pain; - Qmnteisenco of. glimmenng gladness, Of laughter and'dainty disdain. : I'm tired, of erotic Eossetti, . Decadent dream-maidens of Wildo; . : I .hail with a cloud .of confetti The mountains' and prairies' gay child. •iwciry of Shoulders sin-laden, .. Swinburnian, willow-wood white, . I smile with'my merry-eyed maiden, My lady. of. dancing delight! —Sinclair Lewis, in "Overland Monthly." j SONG IN THE SONGLESS. Th'oy liavo 'no song, tlio sedges dry, ■ Arid still they sing. / It is within my.Wast thoy sing, . As I pass by. ' ~ Within my .breast they touch a string, Thoy wake a sigh. ■ ■ ■ ■ There is but sound of sedges dry; In me they sing.- :: V .; .' ' ' ''* ' —George Meredith. ' ' . .SLANDER. "■ Itiish!. Speak it never, more— - ■ • : There let tho base thing lie • : WhVre h'a'se .'things'die-. . • In darkness sore. ■ • ,• '. ' • -Hush!, -Let there; never be . . i . liven in thought, again, . ' •.This.moment's, rending pain ' : 's'frixt you and me.' . - , , - .. See!, Here beneath our feet ■ ■:We trample out as born ' •; ;-' i , JWat might have lhhde forlorn ■ Two. lives,- still human-sweet.. ..... --"Pall Mall Gazette "
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 12
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182BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 12
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