88
Song of the Broad-axe 95
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun 113
Faces 116
O Magnet-South 118
By Broad Potomac's Shore 121
Our Old Feuillage! 122
A Broadway Pageant 131
The Prairie States 137

IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY

To Foreign Lands 141
To Thee Old Cause 142
For You O Democracy 143
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood 144
What Best I See in Thee 153
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days 154
The United States to Old World Critics 156
Years of the Modern 157
O Star of France 158
Thoughts 161
By Blue Ontario's Shore 164

EPILOGUE: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps 191

I

POEMS OF WAR

THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING

Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of stars!
Long yet your road, fateful flag--long yet your road, and lined with
bloody death,
For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,
All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy
banner;
Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
O hasten flag of man--O with sure and steady step, passing highest
flags of kings,
Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol--run up above them all,
Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!

BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!

Beat! beat! drums!--blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows--through doors--burst like a ruthless force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
Into the school where the scholar is studying;
Leave not the bridegroom quiet--no happiness must