OPEN GATES A Book of Poems for Boys and Girls COMPILED AND EDITED BY AND FRANCIS TROW SPAULDING MINNESOTA HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1924 BY SUSAN THOMPSON SPAULDING AND FRANCIS TROW SPAULDING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HJ8 ATOZGUMIN The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. What is it to hate poetry? It is to have no little dreams and fan cies, no holy memories of golden days, to be unmoved by serene midsummer evenings or dawn over wild lands, singing or sunshine, little tales told by the fire a long while since, glow-worms and briar rose; for of all these things and more is poetry made. It is to be cut off forever from the fellowship of great men that are gone; to see men and women without their halos and the world without its glory; to miss the meaning lurking behind the common things, like elves hiding in flowers; it is to beat one's hands all day against the gates of Fairyland and to find that they are shut and the country empty and its kings gone hence. LORD DUNSANY 520549 |
