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  • Interlude
  • Ellen Sturgis Hooper

From Poems, by Ellen Sturgis Hooper (Published Privately, [Edward William Hooper, 1872]) The Tappan Papers, BMS AM 1221, Houghton Library, Harvard University, AC8.H7663.872P

Ye stand there with your sweet and lofty   presences in the cool evening,And as I return from the busy social scene,Ye draw me, as one who says, "I have a   message to deliverWhen thou art still and ready"—

Ready—oh no! my soul is not now for you,They ring yet around and within me—those   voices I have left—

Those voices that summon me again for   tomorrow—

I see you, ye trees, I hear your soft sighing,As one who listens to far off strains of musicOr to tomes which speak of that, his soul   faints to hear of,But between him and those sounds are busy   and curious tonguesWhich talk to him and through him, but   never with him— I must on through the dust. [End Page 105]


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The cover to an Arabic translation of Little Women (Nisa' .aghirat) (1954-58).

Courtesy of the Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division.

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