* Sterns, Justin. Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.
The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing, climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the poem.” (Nation.)
“Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”
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“The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an admirable promise.”
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Stevens, George Barker. Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.