FOREWORD
Reading edition
In this little book, “Wings of Youth,” her second collection of published verses, Nancy Buckley has sounded the tender and wistful and also the joyous note of the young heart. The fact that her first book, “Laughter and Longing,” published in 1921, is now in its third edition, is sufficient testimony to the quality of her verse and to the cultured discernment of Californians.
A mellower tone than we found in her first collection distinguishes most of the verses in this volume. It shows the growth she has made in an earnest pursuit of her high purpose, and the wider and deeper range of powers she has discovered and is bringing forth.
We need such a strong and wholesome spirit as hers. It will inspire hope and cheer and sane striving against the devastating forces that now, more than ever, tend to drag us from our view of a glorious sun always shining in the sky.
W. C. Morrow.
San Francisco, November, 1922.