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Spring 1949 • Vol. XI No. 2 • Nonfiction |

Errata: A Legend of Viable Women

In Richard Eberhart’s poem in the Winter issue, the word perceived on page 84, fifth line from bottom, should read percepted. The stanza should read:

There was a nun of modesty, who with service was heavy
And big with sweet acts all her sweet life long;
Enough wisdom she had for twenty ordinary women
Who percepted love as a breath, and as a song.

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