The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-12

Southern eyes bent upon some piolls bookr
How she sang! What glories had she
left behindl
Had death robbed hor ofher denr ones'
Had she lost lover truei
What sad secrets wore there hidden
Underneath that ven Of blue'
one among the many voices.
Swsetor, higher yet would soar.
And We said. Ills Donadio:
Hank, she sings as nc er before,
Yes. IL was the Donadio.
Often had we heard her name,
How she d turned from many triumph.
Lett applause. success and fans.
All the glamour of the footlights.
Dazzling stage and brilliant halls.
For the shadow and tho silence
OF the sombre convent walls
The poem asks suggestive questions, but
1t does not explain Donadio's presence
IN the convent. Often In the rush and
roar and strife of the city the poet hears
the singing sin the convent on the hill"
Then ! close my eyes and listen.
While all care and trouble cease
As again hear your voices.
Sisters of Reparstrtce.
A slender book, Beyond The Rsquiems
and Other Verses" by Louis Alexander
Robertson, Is published by A. M. Robert
son, San Francisco. From Beyond the
Requisms" we quote:
Hopes pale star still smiles above US, distant In
distinct, and cold:
Az tho primal moth beheld II do We now It's beams
behold.
Are We nearer than the nascens lfo that slumbercd
In the slime,
When the protoplasmio monor scanned the stocps
that Il must climb!
Or che m,crocosmic atom. ere It's retsers lief. II
Or the blind oashybius sleeping AT the bottom OF
the scar
YEA the germ. phmordlai, potent. saw tho goal
that Il must gain,
Found a hovel In man 5 body, built palace In his
brain
But "as to where the spirit wanders when
the body sinks In death" nobody has come
back to tell. Other verses than those OF
vain philosophic speculation are also con-
tanned here, as, for instance:
Give me thy lips. and let me feel
That they forgiveness grant
For much that these poor rhymes reveal.
Give me thy lips. and let me feel
Tho rapturcs that once made me reel
That through my verses pant
Give me thy lips and let mo feel
That they forgiveness grant
Richard G. Badger, Boston, publishes
"A Reed by the River POEMS by Virginia
Woodward Cloud. From this we may
quote the first and last verses OF the poem
called "Of the Sea-:
Let us 20 down to the she noisy day be over
81 lin no down IN the sen and strp liz of caro- and
of toll.
There arc graves In the heart OF man that Ony the
sea can cover.
Thsro are deeds in the life Of DO sown % the
deep sea spoil.
Earth, tho mother hath balm for her world stained
sons and daughters,
Earth, tho mother hath balm for her toll spent
hearts and sad
Time cannot curb nor deny Gods bounttful boon OF
waters
La. US down to tho sea- my soul Lot un down 70 she
sea and DO glad.
From the same book, as showing fairly
well the serious and rather sad tone that Is
general In the poems, contained In IL, we
will quote the verses called AN Old Street:
The Past walks here, nolseloss. unasked al0no
Knockers arc silent. and beside each stone
Grass peers unframed by tagging feet and slow
That with tho dawn and dark pass TO and fro.
Tho Past walks here. unseen forever more
Save by soms heart who. In her half-closed door,
Looks forth and hears the great pulse beat Affair."
The hum and thrill and all the sounds that arc.
And listening remomb crs. half In fear.
AS a forg often tune roechoes near.
Or from some lilac bush breath blows sweet
Through the unanswerng dusk. tho voiceloss
street
Looks full and sighs--wth candle held above
-sH 100 late for Eaughtsr--or for lots'
From Richard G. Badger we have also
Apollo and Keats on Browning, and Other
Poems,' by Clifford Lanier. From the
initial poem here we quote the temerarious
opening lines:
The god Apollo once mot Master Keats,
And, greeting "howdyo, passed tho time o. day.
Tho god had quit Olympus for tho streots
Diversion. tired Of Heavens celestial play.
The thefts of Mercury and high deed-bests.
Had seized his sun -spOked wheel and sped away.
To sock In mortal hsunts somo novel thrill
As masks In German slunns Dutch "Eaissr Wr-s
r,nrrt,y t1ots ha hrfghe v0ir1v