This hand-coloured image is centered horizontally on the page, without frame. It serves as a decorative headpiece for the poem of the same title. The image depicts a woman’s face at the centre of a red rose, upon a brown wooden cross. The woman has red lips, closed eyes, and pale skin. Her face is surrounded by five layers of petals, each containing seven petals. Beside the bottom edge of the cross, the artist’s monogram is visible.

THE PARTING OF THE WAYS.

Beyond the warring of vain hopes, I hear
A voice that cries for ever in my breast :
“They who have dreamed of Beauty and yet fear
To cast away the world, shall find no rest
Beneath the sun, but hang upon the Rood
Of Time, until the world is laid to sleep,
And they are one with the bright multitude
Merged in the untroubled splendour of the deep.”

Cecil French.

MLA citation:

French, Cecil. “The Parting of the Ways,” illustrated by Cecil French. The Green Sheaf, No. 1, 1903, p. [v]. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/GSV1-french-parting/

magazine_texts The Green Sheaf 1 The Parting of the Ways Cecil French 1903 Poetry