Thoughts On Opening A New Book

Will you help me lose my loneliness
And bring me visions bright,
As brilliant as the silver stars
That pierce the purple night?

Will you fill my mind with pleasant dreams
'And lift my soul up high,
Until it is an April bird
Winging toward the sky?

Will you create a garden path
Where I can stroll alone,
With laughter^___and a little song
That I may call my own?

^__Edna Osborne Whitcomb

Contemporary Kansas Poetry
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
page 123
(Kansas City: Joseph D. Havens Company. 1927)