Do you love me?
R. S. V. P.

TO M. E.

WE keep in step as years roll by;
You march behind and I before:—
The path is new to you; but I
Have passed the ground you're walking o'er.
Yet I march on with measured tread,
And looking back, I smile and greet you:—
I fear the order, "Halt!" Instead,
Would I might countermarch and meet you.

BON VOYAGE

[To O. R.]

OUT from the Land of the Future, into the Land of the Past
A comrade sails to the East, the sport of the wave and the blast.
Oh, billow and breeze, be kind, and temper your strength to your guest,
Kind for the sake of the friend,—for the sake of the hands he pressed.
Oh, tenderest billow and breeze, welcome him even as we
Would welcome if you were the friend and we were the wind and the sea!
Welcome, protect him, and waft him westward and homeward at last
Into the Land of the Future, out from the Land of the Past!