Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground. So was I once myself a swinger of birches; And so I dream of going back to be. It's when I'm weary of considerations, And life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs That would be good both going and coming back. FRAGMENTARY BLUE Why make so much of fragmentary blue Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet) — THE ONSET Always the same when on a fated night Yet all the precedent is on my side: I know that winter death has never tried That flashes tail through last year's withered brake William Ellery Leonard was born at Plainfield, New Jersey, January 25, 1876. He received his A.M. at Harvard in 1899 and completed his studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn. After traveling for several years throughout Europe, he became a teacher and has been professor of English in the University of Wisconsin since 1906. The Vaunt of Man (1912) is Leonard's most representative volume. Traditional in form and material, it is anything but conservative in spirit. Leonard's insurrectionary fervor speaks sonorously in the simplest of his quatrains and the strictest of his sonnets. This protesting passion is given an even wider sweep in The Lynching Bee (1920), the title-poem being a terrific indictment in which the poet's outrage speaks with a new ironism. Besides his original poetry, Leonard has published several volumes of translations from the Greek and Latin as well as a series of paraphrases of the fables of Æsop. THE IMAGE OF DELIGHT O how came I that loved stars, moon, and flame, All inner shrines and temples of the free, O'twas not thee! Too eager of a white And when it vanished in the fiery night, TO THE VICTOR Man's mind is larger than his brow of tears; And who slays me must overcome a world: Sarah N. Cleghorn Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn was born at Norfolk, Virginia, February 4, 1876. She came North early in her youth and was graduated from Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester, Vermont (in 1895), in which town, after a year at Radcliffe, she has lived ever since. An ardent worker for lost causes, Miss Cleghorn's fiery spirit shines through Portraits and Protests (1917), the first half of which is coolly descriptive and the second half, hotly insurrectionary verse. 66 THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST The unfit die: the fit both live and thrive." Alas, who say so?-They who do survive. So when her bonfires lighted hill and plain, Did Bloody Mary think on Lady Jane. So Russia thought of Finland, while her heel Fell heavier on the prostrate commonweal. So Booth of Lincoln thought: and so the High Priests let Barabbas live, and Jesus die. THE INCENTIVE I saw a sickly cellar plant Droop on its feeble stem, for want "Poor, foolish plant, by all means stay |