[22] The island of Skyros where Rupert Brooke was buried. (See page
194.)
_Irene Rutherford McLeod_
Irene Rutherford McLeod, born August 21, 1891, has written three
volumes of direct and often distinguished verse, the best of which may
be found in _Songs to Save a Soul_ (1915) and _Before Dawn_ (1918).
The latter volume is dedicated to A. de Selincourt, to whom she was
married in 1919.
"IS LOVE, THEN, SO SIMPLE"
Is love, then, so simple my dear?
The opening of a door,
And seeing all things clear?
I did not know before.
I had thought it unrest and desire
Soaring only to fall,
Annihilation and fire:
It is not so at all.
I feel no desperate will,
But I think I understand
Many things, as I sit quite still,
With Eternity in my hand.