Collections and Recollections, by G.W.E. Russell
Reading edition
Contents:
Preface Collections and Recollections, by G.W.E. Russel (table of contents)
Traits de Moeurs anglaises, par Jean La Frette
Index
THE MOST GENIAL OF COMPANIONS
JAMES PAYN
AT WHOSE SUGGESTION THESE PAPERS WERE WRITTEN AND TO WHOM THEY WERE INSCRIBED
DIED MARCH 25, 1898
Is he gone to a land of no laughter— This man that made mirth for us all? Proves Death but a silence hereafter, Where the echoes of earth cannot fall? Once closed, have the lips no more duty? No more pleasure the exquisite ears? Has the heart done o'erflowing with beauty, As the eyes have with tears? Nay, if aught be sure, what can be surer Than that earth's good decays not with earth? And of all the heart's springs none are purer Than the springs of the fountains of mirth? He that sounds them has pierced the heart's hollows, The places where tears are and sleep; For the foam-flakes that dance in life's shallows Are wrung from life's deep.
J. RHOADES