Wild thundering heart of God

Out of my doubt I come,

And my foolish feet with prophets' feet,

March with the prophets' drum.
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 41



THE EMPTY BOATS

'1X7' HY do I see these empty boats, sailing
*' on airy seas?
One haunted me the whole night long, swaying

with every breeze,
Returning always near the eaves, or by the

skylight glass :
There it will wait me many weeks, and then,

at last, will pass.
Each soul is haunted by a ship in which that

soul might ride
And climb the glorious mysteries of Heaven's

silent tide
In voyages that change the very metes and

bounds of Fate —
O empty boats, we all refuse, that by our

windows wait!



42 General William Booth



WITH A BOUQUET OF TWELVE
ROSES

T SAW Lord Buddha towering by my gate
■■■ Saying: "Once more, good youth, I stand

and wait."
Saying: "I bring you my fair Law of Peace
And from your withering passion full release;
Release from that white hand that stabbed

you so.
The road is calling. With the wind you go,
Forgetting her imperious disdain —
Quenching all memory in the sun and rain."

"Excellent Lord, I come. But first," I said,
"Grant that I bring her these twelve roses red.
