THE TWO VOICES POEMS OF THE MOUNTAINS SELECTED BY JOHN W. CHADWICK AUTHOR OF "A BOOK OF POEMS," "IN NAZARETH TOWN," ETC., ETC Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea, WORDSWORTH TROY, N.Y. NIMS AND KNIGHT 1890 WHY THESE? The most because I long have loved them well, So well that they are grown a part for me Of mountain splendor and the mobile sea ; Which are most God's, in sooth, I cannot tell; And yet I have foregone as dear as these, With pain, because I could not take them all In my small craft, lest some mischance befall. But why have kept some that so widely please Best known of all? Because I loved them so That sink or swim I could not let them go. But some are here—perchance a graver sin— Whose name and fame as yet are all to win; And some because the friends who love me best Said, for our sakes, be thine among the rest. J. W. C. |