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BIRTH.
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Fix this textVoe. 2.
Fix this textDecember, 1917.
Fix this textNo. 1.
Fix this textGALLIPOLI.
Fix this textOh, grey shores in the moonlight,
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Fix this textWhere they sleep.
Fix this textIn the black ravines, and the darkness —
Fix this textCities of Death—
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Fix this textOh, grey seas breaking, lonely,
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Fix this textOh, hearts beloved and loving,
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Fix this textThe dawn comes and the sunset,
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Fix this textHENRY TATE.
Fix this textOUR REVIEWER.
Fix this textZora Cross — “Songs of Love and Life.”*
Fix this textZora Cross, in addition to charming samples of lyric
Fix this textwork, appeared in the “ Bulletin,” and “ Worker,” is now
Fix this textrepresented by sixty “ Love Sonnets,” and six “ Sonnets
Fix this textof the South.” Her recently published book and a new
Fix this textenlarged edition containing these sonnets and a num-
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Fix this textApart from the technical quality, which, for one who
Fix this textaspires to excellence in the strict court of the sonnet, is
Fix this textaltogether too uneven and careless in too many places.
Fix this textMiss Cross has struck no new woman’s note, and has
Fix this textadded nothing to the man’s note save a contempt for
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Fix this textAll that she has said in her sonnets has been said
Fix this textbefore, and very much better said. Take the famous
Fix this text“Hymn to Aphrodite” and the “Anactoria” of Sappho,
Fix this texttake Shelley’s “ Epipsychidion, ’ take Swinburne’s “In
Fix this textthe Orchard ” (this last a far more daring poem than any
Fix this textof hers) where we have the same subject, the same strong
Fix this textplay of human emotions —but what superb artistry, what
Fix this textrestraint and dignity of treatment!
Fix this textThese poets have touched passion with their pens of
Fix this textgold only to exalt it, till it soars high above impurity as
Fix this texta lark-song above the earth. Zora Cross gallops a blind
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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