1 JANUARY 1921, Page 25

THE IMAGE.

Quin the light in your faces : be passionless in the room.

Snuffed are the tapers, and bitterly hang on the flowerless air. See; and this is the Image of her they will lay in the tomb; Clear, and waxen, and cooled in the mass of her hair.

Quiet the tears in your voices : feel lightly finger for finger

In love : then see how like is the Image, yet lifelessly fashioned

And painless, calm, unloving.-0h, who is the Artist?-0h linger And ponder whither has flitted his Sitter impassioned.

RICHARD HUGHES.