Excerpt from Pastels and Silhouettes: A Book of Verse To the verses such color and movement as they possess. Resting upon that faith, the versifier has sought to re-convey what have been felt to be the rhythms of nature, - the impersonal light ness of greeting things, the buoyant fullness of motion in sea and ships, the redundant urge and crowding of humanity in cities, the slow-pulsed, reluctant charm of days-between to subdue ex pression to that of the analogy itself, arrogat ing no rights of pre-considered form; in short, as nearly as possible to grant to each mood or emotion its peculiar image and rhythmic dirce tion. Moreover, part of the author's belief has been concerned with the perceptions that lie between illusion and disillusion: she has not looked toward the realm where fatuous fires and meteors take their birth, nor yet to dis couraged regions of denial, but rather to that swift current with its inevitable impulses and reverses wherein life actually maintains andrenews itself. From this angle or view she has more or less consciously proceeded, in the sin cere persuasion that if there be aught for the artificer of words to celebrate, it must be found in the seldom confessed or praised What Is, rather than in What Should or What - more comfortably - Might Be. The drawing will not be adequate, but I must continue to draw because of my belief in that perfect bridge we. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.