• Edith, the silent stars are coldly gleaming,
      The night wind moans, the leafless trees are still.
    Edith, there is a life beyond this seeming,
      So sleeps the ice-clad lake beneath thy hill.

    So silent beats the pulse of thy pure heart,
      So shines the thought of thy unquestioned eyes.
    O life! why wert thou helpless in thy art?
      O...

  •           Your Pegasus, Edith, is hitched to a star,

              While mine drags along a Sixth Avenue car;

              Yours bears you away to the far empyrean,

              Mine carries me down through the quarters plebeian.

              Now, soaring aloft, you stop at Antares,

              Call it home, that 's the place for...