THE TWO VOICES POEMS OF THE MOUNTAINS SELECTED BY JOHN W. CHADWICK AUTHOR OF "A BOOK OF POEMS," IN NAZARETH TOWN," ETC., ETC. Two Voices are there; one is of the Sea, TROY, N. Y. H. B. NIMS & COMPANY 1886 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF MRS. PARKER POTTER COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK. WHY THESE? The most because I long have loved them well, So well that they are grown a part for me Of mountain splendor and the mobile sea; Which are most God's, in sooth, I cannot tell; And yet I have foregone as dear as these, With pain, because I could not take them all In my small craft, lest some mischance befall. But why have kept some that so widely please— Best known of all? Because I loved them so That sink or swim I could not let them go. But some are here-perchance a graver sin— Whose name and fame as yet are all to win ; And some because the friends who love me best Said, for our sakes, be thine among the rest. J. W. C. |