Show Devoted Wife Collects P Poems ems The Tile City Sleeps Is a collection of poems and short essays essa's selected from tho the writings of Charles Mulford Robinson Rob Kob- Inson by his wife They reflect a harmonious and serene mind RobinSon Robin Robin- son is dead but the little book is like the intimacies of friendship extended to readers after his presence is with with- drawn Perhaps the best poem in the collection col col- lection is the one which gives gl it Its title The City Sleeps Here are two paragraphs The city sleeps and dreams and dreams are sweet How dark clark and still the street At peace the citizens all silent lie There is no restive eye The breath Is calm no hurried feet fee go by Night falls and rest Is sweet O 0 0 peaceful stars watchful eyes Make low the lullabies That in vast unison the planets sing Let them wake not nor bring Too soon eoon the pitiless mad dawn on wing That gleaming stirs the skies The rhe The Churchill Co Boston |