y it who will. The Muses still
reign on Parnassus, wax the heathen never so furious. Poets who love
poetry better than their own fame in Grub Street will do well to
remember

The flame, the noble pageant of our life;
The burning seal that stamps man's high indenture
To vain attempt and most forlorn adventure;
Romance and purple seas, and toppling towns,
And the wind's valiance crying o'er the downs.

It is a poor business to find in such words only the illusions of youth
and a new enthusiasm. The desire for novelty, the passion for force and
dirt, and the hankering after freakishness of mood, which many have
attempted to substitute for the older and simpler things, are themselves
the best evidence of disillusion and jaded nerves. There is a weariness
and a disgust in our recent impatience with beauty which indicate too
clearly the exhaustion of our spiritual resources. It may well be that
the rebirth of poetry is to be manifest in a reappearance of the
obvious, --in a love of the sea and of the beauty of clouds, in the
adventure of death and the yet more amazing adventure of living, in a
vital love of colour, whether of the Orient or the drug-shop, in
childlike love of melody, and the cool cleansing of rain, in strange
faces and old memories. This, in the past, has been poetry, and this
will be poetry again. The singer who, out of a full heart, can offer to
the world his vision of its beauty, and out of a noble mind, his
conception of its destiny, will bestow upon his time the most precious
gift which we can now receive, the gift of his healing power.

C. B. T.

Contents

Dedication
Foreword by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

I.

The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun

II.

Rain after a Vaudeville Show
The City Revisited
Going Back to School
Nos Immortales
Young Blood
The Quality of Courage
Campus Sonnets:
1. Before an Examination
2. Talk
3. May Morning
4. Return -- 1917
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
The Breaking Point
Lonely Burial
Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room
The Hemp
Poor Devil!
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
The White Peacock
Colors
A Minor Poet
The Lover in Hell
Winged Man
Music
The Innovator
Love in Twilight
The Fiddli