The poetical works of Edwin Oscar Gale . d to include the Home pieces in the back part of thevolume under the head of DULCE DOMUM. Among those urging this course was my esteemedfriend, the late gifted Poet of the People, Professor JamesGowdy Clark of California, whose letter upon the subject Iappend to their introduction. Pasadena, California, March 4th, E. O. Gale, Dear Sir and friend: After reading your Dulce Domum poems I think youshould have them in your contemplated book. Have not the poets a name of looking too long at themoon and the stars and not perceiving and feeling the tru
The poetical works of Edwin Oscar Gale . d to include the Home pieces in the back part of thevolume under the head of DULCE DOMUM. Among those urging this course was my esteemedfriend, the late gifted Poet of the People, Professor JamesGowdy Clark of California, whose letter upon the subject Iappend to their introduction. Pasadena, California, March 4th, E. O. Gale, Dear Sir and friend: After reading your Dulce Domum poems I think youshould have them in your contemplated book. Have not the poets a name of looking too long at themoon and the stars and not perceiving and feeling the truelight of home. Should not the curtains be lifted from the 301 windows, that sometimes this light should reach out over theloneliness of the moors. I am especially desirous of seeing these home poems in-corporated in your book, for having read them I feel that inyour gift for making sweet and uplifting the common, every-day things of life you approach nearer to Burns than mostany other American poet. Always your friend, Jx\MES G. PREFACE TO DULCE DOMUM. // other bards before our days As they with Cupid tarried, Took pride in singing loud the praise Of maids they never married, As summer bees spent sunny hours Where honeyed sips were proffered. Alike to them all banks of flowers, Was food ambrosial offered. Or if they mono lovers proved And spent their lives in bringing The sweetest tributes to their loved In words the world keeps singing. Shall we from fear of cynics sneer Conceal a love long plighted, That heaven of home made year by year, Its hallozvcd shrine kept lighted? Shall we like old time housezuives, hide Live coals neath ashen coversf Nor boast that former groom and bride Are still perennial lovers? 303 ON LEAVING MY FAMILY ATELKHART LAKE, WIS- The soft, warm air in misty shrouds Floats gently oer yon hill,While my poor eyelids, like those clouds Against my efforts up, cheer up, sad, foolish heart, By such farewells we learnNo gloom can equal, when
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