;gI8 T H E C O M M O N W E A L June 22, I932 PO EM S ffibr a Tower without Bells In this tall tower filled with pigeons now And silver chiming of imagined bells Real bells will ring one day....
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BOOKS St. Patrick's Country And So Began the Irish Nation, by Seamus MacCall. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $5-00. SPECIAL circumstances, too well known to need recounting, breed in...
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May 6, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 9 the democratic idea the privilege of free love or the right of the state to monopolize the education of children, is absolutely condemned by the Church. In a modern...
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A man with tired eyes, Strangely lonely, May measure time By light-years only. By sea-birds dried On a silver moon, Another may reckon Late or soon. But I, pulled groundward. Perhaps less...
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They are the proudest who have met defeat, They are the proudest who must walk alone, Cherishing the vanished and the sweet, Remembering blossoms broken on a stone. Go softly, you who have no...
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Never more into the grasses Where the hungry scythe now passes Will he fly who came too soon Downward through this sunny noon. Not again into the sky Will he soar with bursting throat. Snaring...
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£ost Valley At dawn there was no valley. River-mist Had captured hill and meadow-land, and left A white wall where the old fence crooked a wrist Around night pastures. He was well...
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336 THE COMMONWEAL July 31, i9:z 9 MARY" A POLISH LEGEND By MARYAN GAWALEWICZ and PIOTR STACHIEWICZ YRIADS of strewn stars glimmer like pearls over the firmament, reflecting the...
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