Heine'

On being asked to day , Nov. 5. GIOA " by Dr. Milford . id I did
not think Swinbourne the greatest we have with us ".

id seemed strange to me to whom Yeats represents the new
in poetry that there should be any feeling of question about
Swinbourne , who has lived so long that he is already with
the dead of the world id est is in eternity a
moreover he is so of a kinship and a kingship with the
lordly dead that he seeks to be. to BE, or better it seems
that he . Is since Greece was , if you grant me Biblic
phrasing .

Apropos. geidenroslein , Lanier on unintellectuality
or meaninglissness of pure tones .

The thing holds you by its cadence even if
you don't know its meaning . It is in its appeal musical
in the highest sense rather than intellectual .
it is genious because its formulae is analytic.
. its very simplicity

The mistake in supposing mere altitude of thought constitutes
poetry . All philosophy is in a sense platitudinized .
. KALOUN-- KALOUN . there lies it . it is the
lure that macht es .
poetry is philosophy made willow-wisp .
where the dark still pool reflecteth
, where the lore-bound sprite expecteth
from the wind that bloweth by
ministry of hands that try
bearing her blessing eer they pass

SONG

from

Die Harzreise

I am the princess Elza
To Ilsenstein I fare,
Come with me to that castle
And we'll be happy there,

Thy head will I cover over
With my wave's clarity
Till thou forget thy sorrow,
O wounded sorrowfully.

Thou wilt in my white arms there,
Nay, on my breast thou must
Forget and rest and dream there
For thine old legend-lust,

My lips and my heart are thine there
As they were his and mine.
His ? Why the good King Harry,
And he is dead lang syne.

Dead men stay always dead men
Life is the live man's part
And I am fair and golden
With panting joy at heart.

p.21

So thou hast forgotten fully

That I so long held thy heart wholly,
Thy little heart, so sweet and false, and small

That there's no thing more sweet or false at all.

Love and lay thou hast forgotten fully,

And my heart worked at them unduly.

I know not' if the love or if the lay were better stuff,

But I know now they both were good enough.