FROM A BOOK FUND COMMEMORATING

RUTH GERALDINE ASHEN CLASS OF 1931

It's a sad thing

when a man is to be so soon forgotten And the shining in his soul

gone from the earth

With no thing remaining;

And it's a sad thing

when a man shall die

And forget love

which is the shiningness of life;

But it's a sadder thing

that a man shall forget love

And he not dead but walking in the field of a May morning

And listening to the voice of the thrush.

-R.G.A., in A Yearbook of
Stanford Writing, 1931

STANFORD

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

GIVEN BY EDWIN EVERITT WILLIAMS '32