The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-29
Social and
Personal.

Love Scars and Lovers Reap.
pavalser! for the servtors of Spring
@ Marshal his triumph! All. make haste
10 see
with what tempestuous paseantry they
bring
arlrth back to earth! Hasten, for this
THAT cast out Winter and the woes that
cling
4, winters garments, and bade April
be!
and now that Spring is master. let US be
Content and laugh-as ancently In
Spring
6l'llo bnttle-weared Tristram laughed,
when he
syns come again to Tintagel-to bring
Clad news OF Arthur's victory and see
Ysoudo With parted lips that waver
and cling.
.,s,,1on in Brittany must Trstram cling
70 this or THAI sad memory. and be
Alone. as she at Tintagelin Spring
Love soweth thus what lovers reap,
3f but hs
is Blind ana scat,ers balcful seed that
Such trutage as blind Love lacks eyes
to see.
'Love sows and lovers reap; and yc will
tt. see
The loved eyes tighten. feel the loved
lips cling.
tEever again when in the grave We be
ie Injurious of your happiness in Spring,
And vet no grace Of Love there whittier
he
That bartered life for love no love may
bring.
FLAMES Branch Cahell, in January
Harper.
The Times-Dispatch society column has
been, during the holidays, the favored
medium OF bringing Richmond authors
to the notice of Richmond people. The
Zines above quoted are taken from a
II story called THE Scstina," which Mr..
Cabcll has written for the January num-
Der OF Harpcr's. The frontspieco for
.&tlle magazine shows a color illustration
! done for tho story by Mr.. Howard Pyle.
The author informs his readers that his
narration of an episode in the life of
tAlianora--that one Of the four beautiful
Y, daughters of the Count of Provence. who
was married to Henry III, King of Eng
iand--is retold from the French of Moo
las de Caen, and in the original is the
(, opening tale Of tho Obtain of Queens"
Al,anora, as Mr.. Cabell notes, was
hated in England, where she stirred UP
4 strife between her royal spouse and his
barons. The story opens at the period
n OF Henry's imprisonment by Leicester,
. wher, Alianora has returned from France
and from an unsuccessful attempt to OBJ
&: tain help there. Travelling across Eng
land in disguise, her escort is attacked
"a and slain by robbers She escapes In the
darkness and comes to Longaville. the
Il manor of Lord Brudenel, who happens,
M fortunately for her, to be away with
y uIeicesteb His brother. Osmund He
4 leigh, whom Lord Brudencl left In charge,
s recognizes in his fair suppliant the lovely
Il Provencal maiden whom he had known at
III her fathers court, In sunny France, when
called her LA Belle" and
4 when he. an English poet, had loved her
n and written in her honor song called
1.-THE Sestina of Spring"
Because OF allegiance vowed in youth
and forgotten In age Heeigh, the poet
ana scholar. leaves his books and his
peaceful home. and having procured for
himself and the Queen a disguise that
Z transform them into stroling musicians
Nor singers, undertakes to conduct her
safely to Bristol, where she wishes to 90.
The adventures and perils OF the six
days of the journey and the after fate
OF Osmund Heleigh is what the story
occupies itself With. The period, the fine
art of the writer and illustrator. the
4 beauty of imagination and the power OF
reproducing incidents and personages With
Il great realistic force and color. belongs
here, as elsewhere, to young Rich
mond writer, whom his publishers regard
with especial favor, thus showing. their
estimate of his uncommon talent.