The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

250 THE NEW EVELYN HOPE I BEAUTIFUL Evelyn Hope is dead] Sit and watch by her side an hour. This is her bookshelf by her bed ; Nietzsche, Weininger, Schopenhauer, Small wonder then that her soul should pass ! Much remains to be changed, I think: She died of the swollen head, alas ! That maidens catch from Maeterlinck, II Sixteen years old when she died 1 A Vestal, tending Minerva’s flame; It was not her time to read ; beside, Her life had hardly a hope or aim, Nor duties enough, nor little cares; She was never quiet; her mind was astir, Το Henrik Ibsen she said her prayers, And she worshipped Edward Carpenter‘ III Is it too late then, Evelyn Hope? We know that your soul was pure and true From Alan Leo’s Test Horoscope, And Cheiro’s words confirmed it too— And just because I was thrice as old, And because you thought me cynical, I'd No place in the Higher Life, I was told ; I was Agnostic, naught beside