e you going to
tell us?

ANOTHER. No wonder he has had dreams! See, he is fast asleep now.
[_Goes over and touches him._] Oh, he is dead!

FOOL. Do not stir! He asked for a sign that you might be saved. [_All
are silent for a moment._] ... Look what has come from his mouth ... a
little winged thing ... a little shining thing.... It is gone to the
door. [_The_ ANGEL _appears in the doorway, stretches out her hands and
closes them again._] The Angel has taken it in her hands.... She will
open her hands in the Garden of Paradise. [_They all kneel._]

CURTAIN

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BY ALFRED NOYES

Poems

With an Introduction by HAMILTON W. MABIE

_Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net_

"Imagination, the capacity to perceive vividly and feel sincerely, and
the gift of fit and beautiful expression in verse-form--if these may be
taken as the equipment of a poet, nearly all of this volume is poetry.
And if to the sum of these be added the indescribable increment of
charm which comes occasionally to the work of some poet, quite unearned
by any of these catalogued qualities of his, you have a fair measure of
Mr. Noyes at his best.... Two considerations render Mr. Noyes
interesting above most poets: the wonderful degree in which the
personal charm illumines what he has already written, and the surprises
which one feels may be in store in his future work. His feelings have
already so much variety and so much apparent sincerity that it is
impossible to tell in what direction his genius will develop. In
whatever style he writes,--the mystical, the historical-dramatic, the
impassioned description of natural beauty, the ballad, the love
lyric,--he has the peculiarity of seeming in each style to have found
the truest expression of himself."--_Louisville Courier-Journal._

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MR. ALFRED NOYES'S POEMS

The Flower of Old Japan

Contains also "Forest of Wild Thyme," of which the _Argonaut_ says: "It
is not only an exquisite piece of work, but it is a psychological
analysis of the child-mind so daring and yet so convincing as to lift
it to the plane where the masterpieces of literature dwell. It can be
read with delight by a child of ten. It is put into the mouth of a
child of about that age, but the adult must be strangely constituted
who can remain indifferent to its haunting spell or who can resist the
fascination which l