And shimmer in their flight;

Then, either way, in darkness sink.

What do I know?

I know not who am I:

If now I enter on the Scheme,

Or revenant from long ago;

If but some World-Soul's moment-dream,

Or, timeless, in Itself I lie.

What do I know?

Here is a sweet touch from the Kansas City Star. The very name of the writer of it is so in keeping with tender dutifulness and so suggestive of clean-swept hearths and ministries to tiny, clinging hands, that one wonders if it be not a pseudonym. A miniature "psalm of daily duty" is it: