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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: HOW TO GO AND FORGET I know how to hold As the lovers of old? How to cling to you, sing to you, Let all the world know the song that I bring to you. But I do not know yet How to go and forget! I know how to call To the God over all? How to sigh for you, cry for you, Fight down the terrible dark till I die for you. But I do not know yet How to go and forget! YOUR TEARS I dare not ask your very all: I only ask a part. Bring me?when dancers leave the hall? Your aching heart. Give other friends your lighted face, The laughter of the years: I come to crave a greater grace? Bring me your tears! When I wait for your face In some garden apart, Little songs of your grace Carol into my heart. When I hear the loved sound Of your feet that delay, I am lifted and crowned On the peaks of the day. WINGS FOR THE SPIRIT chapter{Section 4A MOMENT IMMORTAL In the falling twilight, soft and still, A ploughman trudges over the hill; While down the glory in the west A crane swings swiftly to her nest. The trees upon the fading hight Are listening for the coming night: Two lovers are straying down the walk, Their heads bent close in tender talk. This is the picture: it will stay As long as there is night and day. MAN-MAKING We all are blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making if It does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless The builder also grows. APRIL'S COMING! Bleak was earth for many a day; Snows of tempest whirled and whirled; Now the flowers are on the way: April's coming down the world! Joy went by with broken wing, All the leaves were dead and curled: Now the dreams begin to sing: April's ...