A FURNACE OF EARTH

BY
HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES
Author of “Smoking Flax,” etc.

As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

—DAVID.

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

TO
R. W.

Their first estate of joy they leave,

So pure, impassioned and elate,

And learn from Piety to grieve

Because their hearts are passionate.

—The Revelation of St. Love the Divine.