ng was all right,
And he knew. And wasn't your Grandmother
Waiting in the doorway, watching a bit anxiously,
Until you turned into the yard?
Mine was.

_Flight_

So still lay the city,
So very quietly it slept,
That from high in the west
I heard the honking of geese
Winging southward.
Yearningly I listened
As they swept over,
Yearningly I cried--
O wild things, that I
Could fly as do you!
Then out of the silent darkness,
Like a flying star,
Flashed a plane
With its skyborne humans.
And all of a sudden
I remembered that I, too,
Could take to wings.

_Petit Trianon_

(_Versailles, France_)

When the long drawn notes of a bird's song
Echoes through the trees,
It brings to remembrance the songs
Of the blackbirds at Petit Trianon:
Chiming, reverberating, floating down
From the tops of the tall cedars
As from an invisible, celestial choir.

Nor can I forget the ages-old wisteria
Clambering over gray palace walls,
Nor the gamut of color in the azaleas there--
Pink, orange, cerise, yellow--
In pale green foliage.

_Joy_

When your heavens are as brass
And joy has fled, and
Every door is shut,
Do not forget the one
That opens inward--
The door of your heart,
Whose handle is on the inside
And which only you can open.
Go out through that door
And find one whose skies
Are darker than yours,
Whose burden is heavier;
Bring him back with you
Into your heart.

There can you cleanse him with love,
And clothe him with garments of truth,
And put the ring of his unity
With God upon his hand;
There feed him with the word,
And let him go.
Then will your heavens be
As radiant light,
And your happiness and joy
Such as never were
On land or sea.

_Twilight Song Service_

(_"B.A." Chestnut Hill, Mass._)

In the deepening twilight there floats
From the chapel above, the loved hymns of healing--
Hymns of comfort, of courage, welling up from grateful hearts
And bringing reassurance of God's power
To one who listens below in silent prayer and praise.
Great peace of God, be with us all!
Great peace of God encompass us!
Speak to the waves tonight, Father, that they stand.
Stretch forth Thy hand and sta