Cap and Gown Author:R. L. Paget Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: $ ferric. .DENEATH the lilac-tree, With its breathing blooms of white, You waved a parting kiss to me In the deepening amber light. Your face is always ... more »near, Your tender eyes of brown. I see your form in dreams ; I hear The whisper of your gown. Once more the lilac-tree With twilight dew is wet; But, oh, I would that you might be Alive to love me yet. Edward M. Hulme. The Palo Alto."VTOU say there's a sameness in my style, You long for the savor of something new, You tell me that love is not worth while, You wish for verse that is strong and true. Well, I will leave the choice to you — Prose or poetry, short or long, Only we'll let this be the cue — Love is excluded from the song. I'll sing of some old cathedral pile, Where, as we sit in a carved oak pew, The sunlight illumines nave and aisle, And peace seems thrilling us through and through. No ? you don't think that will do ? How would you like a busy throng, A battle, Elizabeth's retinue ? But love is excluded from the song. A journey, a voyage, a tropic isle, The hush of the forest, the ocean blue, A lament for all that is false and vile, A paean for all that is good and true, Pompadour's fan, or Louis's queue, Mournful or merry, right or wrong. Subjects, you'll find, are not so few, But love is excluded from the song. Oh! for a song of yourself you sue ! Do you think you can trap me ? You are wrong. Sing of your eyes and your smile and — Pooh ! JLove is excluded from the song. Guy Wetmore Carryl. ' Columbia Spectator. chapter{Section 43 feoc ger. "PEAR, I'll tell you how I love you — Not by singing sweetly of you — Oh, I love you far too much, For the daintiest rhyme's light touch ; No, it needs no language signs, It's written here betw...« less