THE HAPPY
TREE
_By the same Author_
THE LEADING NOTE 1910
MOONSEED 1911
UNSTABLE WAYS 1914
THE
HAPPY TREE
_By_
Rosalind Murray
LONDON
Chatto & Windus
1926
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED
_οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν._
_φύλλα τὰ μέν τ᾽ ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ᾽ ὕλη_
_τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ᾽ ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη._
_ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἣ μὲν φύει ἣ δ᾽ ἀπολήγει._[*]
[*] Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground:
Another race the following spring supplies,
They fall successive, and successive rise;
So generations in their course decay,
So flourish these, when those are past away.
— _Iliad_ by Homer, trans. Alexander Pope