20 MAY 1922, Page 14

POETRY.

TWO PROSE POEMS.

OF OTHER POETS.

THOUGII they found many words to write of one thing or another, and though they called heaven to witness that their love was made safe against all days to come, and would not likely perish, Time, that is very zealous searching all things out to destroy them, found their songs, and made them silent ; nor was their promise heard, nor the thing that they had thought made safe remembered.

But I have spoken of my love for you hardly at all, and I have made my songs out of a few words, that Time perhaps in passing might not notice them.

MONK GIBBON.