Transcriber's Note

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document.

HYMEN

By

H. D.

 NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1921

FOR BRYHER AND PERDITA

They said:

she is high and far and blind

in her high pride,

but now that my head is bowed

in sorrow, I find

she is most kind.

We have taken life, they said,

blithely, not groped in a mist

for things that are not—

are if you will, but bloodless—

why ask happiness of the dead?

and my heart bled.

Ah, could they know

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