NIRVANA DAYS
                Poems by
        CALE YOUNG RICE

      R. RICE has the technical cunning
M V     that makes up almost the entire
        equipment of many poets nowadays,
but human nature is more to him always
       and he has the feeling and imagina-
tive sympathy without which all poetry is
but an empty and vain thing." The London
Bookman.
  "Mr. Rice's note is a clarion call, and of his
two poems, 'The Strong Man to His Sires' and
'The Young to the Old,' the former will send
a thrill to the heart of every man who has the
instinct of race in his blood, while the latter
should be printed above the desk of every
minor poet and pessimist. . . . The son-
nets of the sequence, 'Quest and Requital,'
have the elements of great poetry in them."
The Glasgow (Scotland) Herald.
  "Mr. Rice's poems are singularly free from
affectation, and he seems to have written be-
cause of the sincere need of expressing some-
thing that had to take art form." The Sun
(New York).
  "The ability to write verse that scans is
quite common. . . . But the inspired
thought behind the lines is a different



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