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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse written Respite, Kindred, To One Self-slain, At the Grand Cañon, The Night on the Mountain, The Muse of the Incommunicable, and this, the first of the Omnia Exeunt in Mysteriam series:

It goes without saying that there are lovely lines, couplets, or quatrains on almost every page. But besides the above sonnets, the poems which seem to me most simple, sincere, and beautiful are A Possibility, In Babylon, Winter Sunset, and this, The Last Days:

The russet leaves of the sycamore Lie at last on the valley floor— By the autumn wind swept to and fro Like ghosts in a tale of long ago. Shallow and clear the Carmel glides Where the willows droop on its vine-walled sides.

The bracken—rust is red on the hill The pines stand brooding, somber and still; Gray are the cliffs, and the waters gray, Where the seagulls dip to the sea-born spray.