Glorious,—your way
I must tread; and on the walls,
Where this flame-swept future calls
To fierce miracles,
Lo, I greet you here! But me
Mock not lightly. I come free—
But with agony.
A New Winged Victory
Angel Island, by Inez Haynes Gillmore. [Henry Holt and Company, New York.]
Angel Island is several rare things: original, profound, flaming. It leaves you with a gasping sense of having been swept through the skies; and also with that feeling of new life which comes with a plunge into cold, deep seas. Angel Island is a new kind of Winged Victory!