Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt: ...and in nothing end, And, smiling, kiss, though ill at ease, Under the rustling orchard trees. But will the promise given keep? Can the heart love still when 'tis dead? What if the spirit, waked from sleep, Never recall the words it said? Dwell in a dreamland, or else be Lost in life's eternity? 64 THE ISLAND OF DEATH There is an island in a silent sea That rises