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Verily, fame is a fickle goddess. For our natures are fearfully and wonderfully made. But more fearfully than wonderfully. Just two years ago, many other-wise sane Americans were employing valuable time which they could have wasted better elsewhere--inventing epigrams! These related to a (with reservations) gentlemen from Amerongen. Their delicate spirit was imbued in such phrases as "Kan the Krazy Kaiser." And at the same time, several million doughboys were promising their Dulcineas a piece of that personage's ear, or a curl from his right moustache. Apparently oblivious of the blissful fact that the "glorious leadership...
...your blushing gaze, and quit your all-sufficient mother." Mr. Auslander's sonnet, like all his work, shows talent and skill; but, hardened though we are to mixed novelties, we cannot accept as genuine his prayer for "the feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line of the second and last stanza, and reads,--"Then lovelier than the hermit-thrush's call, Than whip-poor-will's insistent threnody, Christopher La Farge '20" which, I am sure...
...down Quincy street like a modern Lochinvar bringing his fair one to the revel instead of rushing her away to lands unknown. But whether they ride on gallant steeds or whether they ride on gallant steeds or whether they walk, not one member of the class faithful to the goddess of music and light will be missing when the orchestra starts on the first one-step...
...third act Wotan tells Erda, the goddess of earth that he is contented that man shall supersede the gods. As Erda sinks into the earth, Siegfried enters and inquires the way to Brunnhilde's rock. Wotan lays his spear across the way, but Siegfried shatters it, and advances to the flames, which envelop the stage. Finally they clear and discover Siegfried on the rock. He has never seen a woman, and thinks Brunnhilde is a beautiful warrior. He loosens the helmet, sees for the first time the long tresses of a woman, and is seized with fear. But he stoops...
...Goddess of Reason," M. Johnston...