Page A Rocket of Iron . . . . . . . . . . . 409 The Chain Gang . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 The Heart of Angiolillo . . . . . . . 420 The Reward of an Apostate . . . . . . 433 At the End of the Alley--I . . . . . . 437 Alone--II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 To Strive and Fail . . . . . . . . . . 446 The Sorrows of the Body . . . . . . . 451 The Triumph of Youth . . . . . . . . . 454 The Old Shoemaker . . . . . . . . . . 464 Where the White Rose Died . . . . . . 466 Transcriber's Notes: Consistent spelling and hyphen usage are maintained within each poem/essay. Punctuation typos with a single solution are corrected; those having more than one solution remain unchanged. In the essay "Literature the Mirror of Man," the reference to "Bosworth's Life of Johnson" is corrected to "Boswell's Life of Johnson." Words printed in the text as mixed small caps are surrounded by equal signs, as in =Voltairine de Cleyre=. Introduction "Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes in the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation of it; one who can reach into the future and draw it nearer. Such a being was =Voltairine de Cleyre=." What could be added to this splendid tribute by Jay Fox to the memory of =Voltairine de Cleyre=? These admirable words express the sentiments of all the friends and comrades of that remarkable woman whose whole life was dedicated to a dominant idea. Like many other women in public life, =Voltairine de Cleyre= was a voluminous letter writer. Those letters addressed to her comrades, friends, and admirers would form her real biography; in them we trace her heroic struggles, her activity, her beliefs, her doubts, her mental changes--in short, her whole life, mirrored in a manner no biographer will ever be able to equal. To collect and publish this correspondence as a part of =Voltairine de Cleyre's= works is impossible; the task is too big for the present undertaking. But let us hope that we will find time and means to publish at least a part of this correspondence in the near future.