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THE SECRET WAY

By ZONA GALE

Birth Christmas Mothers to Men Heart’s Kindred Friendship Village Neighborhood Tales Peace in Friendship Village When I Was a Little Girl Friendship Village Love Stories The Loves of Pelleas and Ettarre

Copyrighted by E. O. Hoppé

THE SECRET WAY

BY ZONA GALE New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Copyright, 1921, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published September, 1921. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A.

“A great life, an entire civilization lies just outside the pale of common thought.... Such life is different from any yet imagined.... I see as clearly as the noonday that this is not all. I see other and higher conditions than existence.... The very idea that there is another Idea is something gained.”

—Richard Jeffries.

CONTENTS

PART I (EARLY VERSE)

PAGE

The Secret Way4

Terza Rima:

IOld Talk8

IIMagic1

IIINight is Here13

Ballades of Three Senses:

IBallade of Eyes That See14

IIBallade of Listening16

IIIBallade of Old Perfumes18

Hokku Thoughts20

Sonnets and Variations:

When Did Spring Die?22

One Dawn She Awoke Me23

There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live24

Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young25

Why Am I Silent?26

I Wandered Where the Wonder of the Sky—27

Here a Hill Field28

Return29

By My Side All Day Another Went30

In J. P. P.’s Metre:

I31

II32

III(To a Poet)33

Exercise in Spenserians35

PART II

I Know Where a Dove51

Prolocutor52

Wonder53

A Meeting54

Half Thought55

Epitaphs56

Alias57

In Arvia’s Room58

Half Thought64

Umbra65

Wraiths66

Half Thought67

Wind Song68

Half Thought70

Troth71

Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills72

Credo73

Who Is This That Is So Near?74

Inmost One75

Stone Cell77

Light78

Half Thought81

Contours82

PART III

News Notes of Portage, Wisconsin:

IKilbourn Road85

IIViolin91

IIINorth Star96

Prose Notes:

The Bureau98

Minuet99

The Dining Room101

Paradise and Purgatory103

At Least105

Roses106

Spring Evening109

Second Sight111

Does Something Wait?113

Doors114

Levitation116

Enchantment118