And things we dare not know, and dare not dream.

Note: Nora May French, the most gifted poet of her sex that America has produced, died by her own hand at Carmel in 1907. Her ashes were strewn into the sea from Point Lobos.


IN LEMURIA

Rememberest thou? Enormous gongs of stone

Were stricken, and the storming trumpeteers

Acclaimed my deed to answering tides of spears,

And spoke the names of monsters overthrown—

Griffins whose angry gold, and fervid store

Of sapphires wrenched from marble-plungèd mines—