Despair, and oftentimes in weeping burst.
Then ridicule he must cynically
That frivolous, yet frightful song of life,
To accent the word “mother” properly.
And loathsome must that song to him remain,
To say he hears forever in the strife
That “mother” sound as a sacred refrain.
THE SPIRAL
OR
ON THE DECLINE OF A CENTURY
A spiral is a regular endless curve beginning at the center and running in diverging rings continually in a circle so that the distance of a point on any one revolution from the second is as great as the second from the third and so on.—A Definition of a Spiral.
It was ages ago.