These but lived their little hour,
Filled with pride and pomp and power;
What availed them all at last?
We shall pass as they have past.
Still the human heart will dream on
Love, part angel and part demon;
Yet, I question, what secures
Our belief that aught endures?
In that book, o'er which Chaldean
Wisdom pored and many an eon
Of philosophy long dead,
This is all that man has read.
OTHER BOOKS OF VERSE BY MADISON CAWEIN
Days and Dreams Cloth, gilt top, $1.00
Moods and Memories " " 1.00
Red Leaves and Roses " " 1.00
Poems of Nature and Love " " 1.00
Intimations of the Beautiful " " 1.00
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SOME NOTICES OF MR. CAWEIN'S VERSES
"I should like to praise the poetry of Madison Cawein, of Kentucky,
which is as remote as Greece from the actual everyday life of his
region; as remote from it as the poetry of Keats was from the England
of his day, and which is yet so richly, so passionately true to the
presence and essence of nature as she can be known only in the
Southern West.
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