Dedication
DEDICATED
TO
MY CHILDREN
AND
GRANDCHILDREN
Epigraph
“What is this child of man that can conquer
Time and that is braver than Love?
Even Memory.”
Lord Dunsany.
Though “a Sorrow’s Crown of Sorrow”
Be “remembering happier things,”
Present joy will shine the brighter
If our morn a radiance flings.
We perchance may thwart the future
If we will not look before,
And upon a past which pains us
We may fasten Memory’s door.
But we will not, cannot, banish
Bygone pleasure from our side,
Nor will doubt, beyond the storm-cloud,
Shall be Light at Eventide.
M. E. J.