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Title: Iolaeus
The man that was a ghost

Author: James A. Mackereth

Release Date: November 16, 2009 [EBook #30481]

Language: English

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IOLAeUS

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

A SON OF CAIN: POEMS. Cr. 8vo. 3/6 net.

IN THE WAKE OF THE PH[OE]NIX: POEMS. F'cap. 8vo. 3/6 net.

IOLAeUS:

THE MAN THAT WAS A GHOST

BY

JAMES A. MACKERETH

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA

1913

TO THE MEMORY OF
MY FRIEND
ARTHUR RANSOM

HAIL AND FAREWELL

To A.R.

We range the ringing slopes of life; but you
Scale the last summit, high in lonelier air,
Whose dizzy pinnacle each soul must dare
For valedictions born and ventures new.
From dust to spirit climb, O brave and true!
Strong in the wisdom that is more than prayer;
High o'er the mists of pain and of despair,
Mount to the vision, and the far adieu.

Merged in the vastness, with a calm surmise
Mount, lonely climber, brightened from afar;
Whose soul is secret as the evening-star;
Whose steps are toward the ultimate surprise:
No dubious morrow dims those daring eyes--
Divinely lit whence truth's horizons are.

_The sonnets in this volume have previously appeared in the columns of
"The Academy," "The Eye-Witness," and "The Yorkshire Observer." My
thanks are due to the Editors of these publications for their kind
permission to republish._

J.A.M.

_Stocka House,
Cottingley,
Bingley._

CONTENTS

Title Poem: Page

Iolaeus 13

Sonnets:

The Return 67
The Soul and the Sea 69
Nations Estranged 71
The Passing-Bell 73
Condemned 75
To America. I.