...spectres of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years ? Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden ? Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden,...; Because it gives some sense of power and passion i. In helpless impotence to try to fashion I Our woe in living words howe'er uncouth. h Surely I write...

...spectres of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years ? Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden ? Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden, And wail life's discord into careless ears ? " I am satisfied if I am able to wring out, here and there, some pleasing...

...spectres of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years ? Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden ? Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden, And wail life's discords into careless ears ? Throughout a week, and such weeks few or many Recur each year for several years, can any Discern...

...lying ; The ringdove haunts its desolated halls And domes, coo-coo, coo-coo, forever crying.*0 VI. Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden And wail life's discords into careless ears ? —Janies Tbompson. ENEATH the skies each mortal undergoes A thousand griefs, a thousand bitter woes,...

...To blot the sunshine of exultant years ? Why disinter dead faith from moldering hidden ? Why brpak the seals of mute despair unbidden, And wail life's...that beguiles, False dreams, false hopes, false masks ami modes of youth; Because it gives some sense of power and passion In helpless impotence to try to...

...of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years ! " " Because a cold rage seizes one at times To show the bitter, old and wrinkled truth, Stripped...dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth." All this, alas, is the inevitable physical outcome of the attempt to — I* Divorce old, barren Reason...

...of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years ! " " Because a cold rage seizes one at times To show the bitter, old and wrinkled truth, Stripped...dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth." • • • • All this, alas, is the inevitable physical outcome of the attempt to — " Divorce...

...of attaching to his remarks a merely flippant significance. This is no flippancy. Either he said it "Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show...truth Stripped naked of all vesture that beguiles. . . ." reported by M. de Guerin, to the effect that were a god asked to recite his life he would put...

...of attaching to his remarks a merely flippant significance. This is no flippancy. Either he said it "Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show...truth Stripped naked of all vesture that beguiles. . . ." or else he must have meant it to bear some profoundly esoteric construction. He may have had...

...support therein? The answer is twofold. "BV" phrased it in the proem to The City of Dreadful Night: Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles To show the...dreams, false hopes, false masks and modes of youth; in BRYN MAWR NOTES POET AND NOVELIST 195 Because it gives some sense of power and passion In helpless...