An Unborn Space. The Court of Four Seasons. From an etching by Gertrude
Partington (Frontispiece)
A Structure Brave. Palace of Fine Arts. From an etching by Gertrude
Partington
A Building Inside Out. The Court of Ages. From an etching by Gertrude
Partington
A Four-Dimensional Cover Design. By Julia Manchester Mackie. (Cover.)
Time is, and all the detail of the world confounds
The plastic mind. With multitude of shapes and sounds
Do the swift elements of thought contend
To form a whole which life may comprehend.
Only to those of high intent
Is life revealed, and quick dreams sent -
Half glimpsed truths omnipotent.
Out of the silence of an unborn space
A spirit moves, and thought comes face to face
With the immutable, and time is past,
And the spent soul, done, meets truth at last.
Chance, fate, occasion, circumstance,
In interfused radiance
Are lost. Past, present, future, all combined
In one sure instantaneous grasp of mind,
And all infinity unrolls at our command,
And beast and man and God unite, as worlds expand.
- Ormeida Curtis Harrison.