MEMORIAL DAY MEMORIAL DAY AND OTHER VERSE AND OTHER VERSE (ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED) BY HELEN LEAH REED HELEN LEAH REED AUTHOR OF SERBIA; A SKETCH NAPOLEON'S YOUNG NEIGHBOR THE BRENDA SERIES, ETC. DE WOLFE AND FISKE CO. 20 FRANKLIN ST. BOSTON COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY HELEN LEAH REED Entered at Stationers' Hall This book is sold for the benefit of work for blinded soldiers THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON SOLDIER, SCHOLAR, FRIEND THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON The author thanks the editors of the following publications for the right to reprint certain poems of hers that they first published: Scribner's Magazine, Horace III-29. Collier's Weekly, Horace I-14. Poet Lore, Horace I-11. Chicago Interocean, The Fading Vision. The Christian Union, Jack Frost and the Flowers. New York Sun, The Rivals. Metropolitan Magazine, Strength Renewed. Christian Endeavor World, Town and Country. Boston Transcript, Summer in London; His Monument; Memorial Day. Boston Herald, The Cry of the Women. Ladies' Home Journal, The Christmas Letter. Woman's Home Companion, Frightened. The Delineator, The Victim; A Modern