Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No Mystery. 19 NO MYSTERY. Ah yes! my eyes for thee grow sparkling bright As sudden sunshine on a waste of sea; Thy voice, though softly sweet it is, to me . Makes deeper music than the waves at night; And thy sweet smile is fairer to my sight Than twilight's wondrous tones of violet. But mystic meaning never yet was set In runes like these. The old gods pass away, The new are men, and thought will win the day. And I may never to thy standard get, But still thou art, I am, and love thee yet. Benj. P. Wall, '76. 2o A Dream. A DREAM. If I shall find myself, long after death, In some vast darkness walking all alone, And strain my every sense and hold my breath, Because each step before me is unknown; If, all around, the darkness blank and still Hangs heavily and thick with shapeless dread, And I go ever on without my will, Yet dare not stop nor even turn my head, But tremble, sick with terror, lest I may At any instant cower to feel the clutch Of something that has followed all the way— If then thy sudden hand my shoulder touch, I shall not shudder. Longed-for touch and dear, How should I fail to know thee even here ? Milicent Washburn Shinn, '?p. Nirvana. 21 NIRVANA. I Stand before thy giant form, Ranier, That rises wrapped in robe of dazzling snow, And wonder what has made thee tower so, Calm, cold, and changeless in the sunlight clear. The answer comes: Volcanic rocks have here For ages burned, upcast with fiercest glow In fiery torrents from the hell below. Thus did this mighty pyramid uprear Its matchless form, till now it stands alone, Above the storms that vex the lower skies, While radiant whiteness clothes the rugged stone. O soul, cast out the hell that in thee lies Of passions and desir... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.