Elizabethan days . THE CORD OF HOPE HAT does life guarantee? Nothing, but hope for me;Pray tell me what is hope?Naught but a slackened rope,That when you pull it fairIts end is blank despair. What does hope guarantee ? It promised new life to me, I found it and I rejoiced Real gratitude I voiced— Found when I drew the silken band Dead ashes in my hand. January 5, 1910. 16. BERLIN AST night I dreamed I was at the Chancellery,Living again those days so gloriously free,Days when I sported epaulets and swordAnd passed my time as if I were a sauntered up the marble stairs and in the door,Old
Elizabethan days . THE CORD OF HOPE HAT does life guarantee? Nothing, but hope for me;Pray tell me what is hope?Naught but a slackened rope,That when you pull it fairIts end is blank despair. What does hope guarantee ? It promised new life to me, I found it and I rejoiced Real gratitude I voiced— Found when I drew the silken band Dead ashes in my hand. January 5, 1910. 16. BERLIN AST night I dreamed I was at the Chancellery,Living again those days so gloriously free,Days when I sported epaulets and swordAnd passed my time as if I were a sauntered up the marble stairs and in the door,Old Wilhelm bowing met me Some news in Herr, the Baroness has asked that youCall her at once and to the phone I flew,Which hung upon the wall, besideThe lounge where Bayard Taylor hear from her my heart could hardly wait,But soon I heard her voice You are a trifle late;Oh, wont you come up to our home at threeAnd go to the Winter Garden skating with me?Of course I shall—Wilhelm a droschky met the little Baroness, done out in furs and sweater on the crowded ice we glided, not a cloud I knew,Success in life seemed only what I choose to last I spoke my heart: In one short month I leave for homeTo make my fortune, it does not pay to roam,Else, truly, you must come to the States with red lips pouted, she replied, You must
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