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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1921

"Wherefore Art Thou Romeo ?"

"Wherefore Art Thou Romeo ?"

Oh Sages, tell me why the Soul of Life
Dies in success;
Why love will drive to super-human strife
For love; but faints at Fortune's first caress.
For thus I love and cease
To love, when love is mine.
Thus, Sages, tell me why man's soul is cast
With seams of clay;
Why Love, Life's summit, often fails to last
Beyond its echo; tell me now, I pray,
And give me long-sought peace.
Cry ye, then, "Love is thine?"

R. W. C.