A kiss, a sigh, and blinding tears,—

Yet ever after in the wind,

The bird-like music of the spheres!

Frank S. Williamson.

This is from the author’s “Purple and Gold,” a book of poems published in Melbourne (Thomas C. Lothian, publisher).


No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

G. MacDonald (Robert Falconer).