THE SECRET WAY _By_ ZONA GALE BIRTH CHRISTMAS MOTHERS TO MEN HEART’S KINDRED FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD TALES PEACE IN FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE LOVE STORIES THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETTARRE [Illustration: portrait of the author. Copyrighted by E. O. Hoppé] THE SECRET WAY BY ZONA GALE New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 _All rights reserved_ PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published September, 1921. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A. “A great life, an entire civilization lies just outside the pale of common thought.... Such life is different from any yet imagined.... I see as clearly as the noonday that this is not all. I see other and higher conditions than existence.... The very idea that there is another Idea is something gained.” --RICHARD JEFFRIES. CONTENTS PART I (EARLY VERSE) PAGE THE SECRET WAY 4 TERZA RIMA: I OLD TALK 8 II MAGIC 1 III NIGHT IS HERE 13 BALLADES OF THREE SENSES: I BALLADE OF EYES THAT SEE 14 II BALLADE OF LISTENING 16 III BALLADE OF OLD PERFUMES 18 HALF THOUGHTS 20 SONNETS AND VARIATIONS: WHEN DID SPRING DIE? 22 ONE DAWN SHE AWOKE ME 23 THERE ARE WITHIN US LIVES WE NEVER LIVE 24 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED I SAW MY MOTHER YOUNG 25 WHY AM I SILENT? 26 I WANDERED WHERE THE WONDER OF THE SKY-- 27