Scribner's magazine . gh oerhead, Above the waste of war. The silver torch-light of the evening star Wherewith to search the faces of the dead. II Lagooned in gold, Seem not those jetty promontories rather The outposts of some ancient land forlorn, Uncomforted of morn, Where old oblivions gather, The melancholy, unconsoling fold Of all things that go utterly to death And mix no more, no more With lifes perpetually awakening breath ? Shall Time not ferry me to such a shore. Over such sailless seas. To walk with hopes slain importunities In miserable marriage ? Nay, shall not All things be there
Scribner's magazine . gh oerhead, Above the waste of war. The silver torch-light of the evening star Wherewith to search the faces of the dead. II Lagooned in gold, Seem not those jetty promontories rather The outposts of some ancient land forlorn, Uncomforted of morn, Where old oblivions gather, The melancholy, unconsoling fold Of all things that go utterly to death And mix no more, no more With lifes perpetually awakening breath ? Shall Time not ferry me to such a shore. Over such sailless seas. To walk with hopes slain importunities In miserable marriage ? Nay, shall not All things be there forgot. Save the seas golden barrier and the black Close-crouching promontories ? Dead to all shames, forgotten of all glories, Shall I not wander there, a shadows shade, A spectre self-destroyed. So purged of all remembrance and sucked back Into the primal void, That should we on that shore i^hantasmal meet I should not know the coming of your feet ? LENOX By George A. Hibbard Illustrations by W. S. Vanderbilt Allen. ^HAT artless lady whohas been known to theworld for such a longtime because of herfamous wonder as tohow it happened thatlarge rivers always ranpast large towns, andwho commented favorably uj)on such anadvantageous arrangement of things,might have wondered as to the why of Lenox. She might have wondered,perhai^s, but it would almost seem that,in this case, in spite of her engagingintellectual misadjustments, she musthave put the horse before the cart, andannounced that Lenox was for thesimple reason that nature had fitted itso to be. Granted literally the j^rem-ises, the hills and the lakes, and theplace that has grown up, is, as it were, aninevitable logical conclusion. There aremany who do not care for the moun-tains, and there are many who do notwillingly seek the sea, and to theseLenox offers a i^erfect mean. Thereis a number of other reasons for thecontinuance and the permanence ofLenox, but it is safe to say that its first cause was, or that its firstcauses
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