YOUR PLACE

IN NARROW WAYS

SHUT WINDOWS

PROPS

BED-ROCK

AFTER WORK

KAPIOLANI IN RAROTONGAN




AUTHOR'S APOLOGY


In these rushful days an apology is advisable, if not absolutely
essential, from any man, save the one or two elect, who has the temerity
to publish a volume of verse.

These stray lines, such as they are, have come to me from time to time,
I hardly know how or whence; certainly not of deliberate intention or of
malice aforethought. More often than not they have come to the
interruption of other, as it seemed to me, more important--and
undoubtedly more profitable--work.