Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth’ smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throne!
An Illustration from “RABBI BEN EZRA” and other Poems
by ROBERT BROWNING, Illustrated by BERNARD PARTRIDGE
Published by HODDER AND STOUGHTON
London, New York and Toronto
“The BOOKMAN” PORTFOLIO Christmas 1915
There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence, implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth, the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblence, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard, The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky, Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard; Enough that He heard it once: we shall hear it by and by.
An Illustration from “RABBI BEN EZRA” and other Poems
by ROBERT BROWNING, Illustrated by BERNARD PARTRIDGE
Published by HODDER AND STOUGHTON
London, New York and Toronto
Supplement to “The BOOKMAN,” Christmas, 1915
Bob Cratchit went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times in honor of its begin Christmas Eve.
An Illustration from “A Christmas Carol”
by CHARLES DICKENS
Illustrated by ARTHUR RACKHAM
London: William Heinman
Supplement to “The BOOKMAN,” Christmas, 1915
Everything about her was white, glistening and shining.
An Illustration from “THE DREAMER OF DREAMS”
By the QUEEN OF ROUMANIA
Illustrated by EDMUND DULAC
Published by HODDER AND STOUGHTON
London, New York and Toronto
Supplement to “The BOOKMAN,” Christmas, 1915
A half-tone reproduction of one of Edmund Dulac’s colour paintings in the “Edmund Dulac Picture Book” Published for the French Red Cross (Hodder and Stoughton.)
