FROM THE HIDDEN WAY
Reading edition
Dizain des Échos
BY
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
“Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora, the lovely Roman? Where’s Hipparchia? and where is Thaïs?... Where is Echo?”
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY NEW YORK : : : : : : 1924
Revised Version, Copyright, 1916, by James Branch Cabell
Printed in the United States of America
Published, 1924
TO BEVERLEY BLAND MUNFORD
(31 May 1910)
“Most blithe and sage and gentle, and most brave! O true clear heart, so quick to wake and war Against despondency, lest questioning mar One hour of living, or foiled hopes enslave And sour another’s living! not to the grave Do we commit you,—we that, watching, are As men at twilight noting which bright star Is leaped at, missed, clutched, swallowed by which wave. “The star is gone?—So be it. It will rise Elsewhere, and undiminished. Even thus We know that instantly in Paradise— Yea, in the inmost court of Heaven’s house,— A gentleman to God lifts those brave eyes Which yesterday made life more brave for us.”