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Tasting the Earth - Mona Gould
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Title: Tasting the Earth
Author: Mona Gould
Release Date: November 15, 2010 [eBook #34328]
Language: English
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TASTING THE EARTH***
Copyright (C) 1943 by The Estate of Mona Gould.
"On the food of the strong I fed, on dark strange life itself,
Wisdom-giving and sombre with the unremitting love of ages.
There was dank soil in my mouth,
And bitter sea on my lips
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth."
James Oppenheim
Copyright, Canada, 1943 By Mona Gould All rights reserved - no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine or newspaper. Printed in Canada T.H. Best Printing Co., Limited Toronto. Ont.
To Graham and John
Acknowledgements
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Alfred A. Knopf Inc.,
publisher, New York, for permission to use the lines from
Tasting the Earth
by James Oppenheim, from his
Songs For the New Age (1914), and for permission to reprint to:
Saturday Night, Chatelaine, Montreal C.A.A. Year Books,
Canadian Forum., Gossip, Montrealer, Canadian Magazine,
Woman's Illustrated (London, Eng. ), Woman's Journal (London, Eng.).
Foreword
We all of us know that the ordinary every-day man and woman, the people we brush against in street cars, the people who read the funnies - the people who are like us - are capable of the profoundest depths of feeling and the noblest aspirations. But it is only on the rarest occasions that we happen to see one of them at it, so to speak, and when we do we have a certain sense of shame at intruding on something that really should be private between him and his God.
The artist enables us to see this ordinary man and woman in the moments when they are not ordinary, without any of this sense of intrusion. I think Mona Gould, in most of the verses