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Excerpt from Splinters, 1929-1931: Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Massachusetts; Volume 39-40 Opportunity is ever before us. It confronts us here in our everyday life in the commonplace guise Of study. Let us be alive to its promise. It is for us the ood tide Of fortune, and when we perceive and grasp this moment Of golden Opportunity for work and thought, we shall be conscious Of the nearness of great things. A figure Of Italian marble You gaze at the rain Through the squares of my window. Rain falls in countless grey ribbons Dark comes - and my room is heavy with Shadows. Your white limbs are weird streaks of light, Incongruous in the greyness. I wonder DO you wish for the caress of rain On your beautiful pagan body? Or are you sightless, soulless, empty Of desire, Just a piece of marble cut in classic lines, Growing fainter and yet fainter In my dark, rain-streaked window? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.