From Anton Tchekhov's Note-Book: 



'A conversation on another planet about the earth a thousand 



years hence: "Do you remember that white tree "' 



— "The London Mercury," January, 1921. 



What, O Man, shall God remember when the world of men is cold ? 

 All the anguish, all the violence, that have wracked it from of old ? 



Be you not too sure; for haply when the troublers yet to come 

 Like the dreaded Boman legions or the Tartar hordes are dumb, 



God shall see an ancient hill-top where an unremembered boy 

 Laughed because the earth was lovely and to live and breathe was 

 joy- —"The Scales" by Clifford Bax, from 



"A House of Words." 



(By permiaiion of Basil Blackwell, publisher.) 



