Done with all yearning, done with all regret,
Doubt, fear, hope, sorrow, all forever past:
Past all the hours, or slow of wing or fleet—
It must be sweet, it must be very sweet!
—From “Songs of the Golden Gate,” copyright by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
ROCKING THE BABY
By Madge Morris Wagner
I hear her rocking the baby—
Her room is just next to mine—
And I fancy I feel the dimpled arms