Front matter
Reading edition
THE MAGNET PUBLISHING CO. MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
COPYRIGHT, 1909 MORILLA MARIA NORTON MANILA, PHILIPPINES
To M. B. N.
Great Mother, dead but living, Living but dead, The snow falls fast, In this death month of all the year. White flakes like messengers Sent upon the blast, From Heaven to light upon thy bier. Like this death month of Nature Such thou wert and art; Cold with unsullied purity of will, White with the soul’s austerity of charity, Yet holding all the flames Of summer’s glory in thy heart.
Yokohama January 7, 1909