Harold McCurdy, who describes himself as “a Southerner and a Methodist,” was for many years Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Taking early retirement to indulge his literary hobby, Dr. McCurdy has published three volumes of poems, A Straw Flute, The Chastening of Narcissus, And Then the Sky Turned Blue. We are publishing these four sonnets at this time because the “Feast of the Assumption” in the Roman calendar comes on August 15. The reference in the final sonnet...