Page:The Pathfinder, Swiggett, June 1911.djvu/10

6 THE MORNING-GLORY

What George Eliot somewhere calls "the beauty of duty," sounds consistently through Mrs. Coates's work, a true interpretation of life, as Arnold would say. We live in a 'practical' age—an age of complex motives, but are, none the less, beginning to realize that we must mingle idealism with practice. In "Survival" published in the Poems (1898), Mrs. Coates tells us:—

The knell that dooms the voiceless and obscure

Stills Memnon's music with its ghostly chime;