Memories.

When that the rising moon doth usher out the closing day and herald in the night,

And all the sun's brave forces put to rout, Withdraw in shame, and veil themselves from sight,

And weary, budded flowers seek repose, adjusting all their petals as for rest, and small birds hover

near the garden close, for one last song, air each wings to his nest. At such a time, my drifting mind

is caught and imprisoned in a net of memories the vanished twilight times return unsought and with them strains from withered melodies how can i love my need for you appease when time still brings such lovely flowers as these.

Honolulu, April 1, 1932.

Two sonnets written by Mrs. Thalia Massey may play an important part in the second-degree murder trial of Mrs. Grace Bell Fortescue,

American Society matron of New York and Washington, her son-in-law Lieutenant Thomas H. Massey,

and two naval enlisted men, Edward J. Lord, and Albert O. Deacon Jones, which is scheduled to open next Monday morning.

The quartet and the honor slaying are accused of lynching Joseph Cahawai, one of five charged with

raping Mrs. Massey, 20-year-old wife of the naval lieutenant. Clarence Darrow, Chicago criminal

lawyer, heads the defense counsel, and because the 75-year-old attorney is convalescing from an illness,

the court has ordered the sessions limited to three hours a day, 9 a.m. to noon. Friends of Mrs. Massey brought

the sonnets to light today. They were cited as showing a side of the central figure in the trial,

which has been little known before. The friend said, quote, these two sonnets reveal a nature perhaps not entirely unified,

but beauty-loving and capable of a very appealing tenderness, an ear sensitive to the harmonious

fall of syllables, a strong urge for expression and an act of imagination.

Among the contradictory reports and notions of her that are current among Honolulu people and others,

perhaps who knows, these sonnets may reveal the true Thalia Massey, unquote.

When the University of Hawaii number of Trubidor appeared last May, four months before Mrs. Massey was attacked, one of its contributors was the naval officer's wife. She was a special

student at the university at the time and contributed two sonnets to the magazine, which is a poetry journal published in San Diego, California.

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