Copyright, 1917,
By The Page Company
All rights reserved
First Impression, October, 1917
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.


"To some Love comes so splendid and so soon,
With such wide wings and steps so royally,
That they, like sleepers wakened suddenly,
Expecting dawn, are blinded by his noon.

"To some Love comes so silently and late,
That all unheard he is, and passes by,
Leaving no gift but a remembered sigh,
While they stand watching at another gate.

"But some know Love at the enchanted hour,
They hear him singing like a bird afar,
They see him coming like a falling star,
They meet his eyes—and all their world's in flower."


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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["It was that of a man coming towards her." ](See page 143)Frontispiece
["A strange look passed into Theodora's eyes"]83
["Pelting the dancing girls for idle diversion"]192
["Thrown her saffron scarf over the prostrate youth"]236

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