HER hair was a waving bronze, and… Deep wells that might cover a broo… And who, till he weighed it, could… That her heart was a cinder instea…

“COME to me for wisdom,' said th… In the valley and the plain There is Knowledge dimmed with so… There is Effort, with its hope li… There, the chained rebel, Passion…

ONE righteous word for Law’€”the… One living truth of Faith’€”God r… One primal test of Freedom’€”all… One sacred Revolution’€”change of… One trust unfailing for the night…

To toil all day and lie worn-out a… To rise for all the years to slave… And breed new broods to do no othe… In toiling, bearing, breeding—life… To myriad men, too base for man or…

Nor gold, nor silver are the words… Nor rich-wrought chasing on design… But rugged relics of an unknown sp… Where fortune chanced I played on… Unthought of here the critic blame…

Life is a certainty, Death is a doubt; Men may be dead While they’re walking about. Love is as needful

Trapper died’€”our hero’€”and we g… In every heart in camp the sorrow… ‘His soul was red!’ the Indian cr… ‘A white man, he!’ the grim old Y… So, brief and strong, each mourner…

FOR every sin that comes before t… And leaves an outward blemish on t… How many, darker, cower out of sig… And burrow, blind and silent, like… And like the mole, too, with its b…

THE world was made when a man was… He must taste for himself the forb… He can never take warning from old… He must fight as a boy, he must dr… He must kiss, he must love, he mus…

LOVE found them sitting in a woo… His amorous hand amid her golden t… And Love looked smiling on her gl… And moistened eyes upturned to his… ‘O sweet,’ she murmured, ‘life is…

‘€œWhat is the real good?’ I asked in musing mood. Order, said the law court; Knowledge, said the school; Truth, said the wise man;

THERE is blood on the face of th… It reeks through the years, and is… Where Truth was slaughtered at bi… And the veins of Liberty bled. Lo! vain is the hand that tries

Poets should not reason: Let them sing! Argument is treason '€” Bells should ring. Statements none, nor questions;

A KINDLY act is a kernel sown, That will grow to a goodly tree, Shedding its fruit when time has f… Down the gulf of eternity.