twice-told tale of God.

They said the fairies tript no more,
And long ago that Pan was dead;
'Twas but that fools preferred to bore
Earth's rind inch-deep for truth instead. 40

Pan leaps and pipes all summer long,
The fairies dance each full-mooned night,
Would we but doff our lenses strong,
And trust our wiser eyes' delight.

City of Elf-land, just without 45
Our seeing, marvel ever new,
Glimpsed in fair weather, a sweet doubt
Sketched-in, mirage-like, on the blue.

I build thee in yon sunset cloud,
Whose edge allures to climb the height; 50
I hear thy drowned bells, inly-loud,
From still pools dusk with dreams of night.

Thy gates are shut to hardiest will,
Thy countersign of long-lost speech,--
Those fountained courts, those chambers still, 55
Fronting Time's far East, who shall reach?

I know not, and will never pry,
But trust our human heart for all;
Wonders that from the seeker fly
Into an open sense may fall. 60

Hide in thine own soul, and surprise
The password of the unwary elves;
Seek it, thou canst not bribe their spies;
Unsought, they whisper it themselves.

The Riverside Literature Series.

_With Introductions, Notes, Historical Sketches, and Biographical
Sketches. Each regular single number, paper, 15 cents._

1. Longfellow's Evangeline.[33][36]

2. Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish; Elizabeth.[33]

3. Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish. DRAMATIZED.

4. Whittier's Snow-Bound, and Other Poems.[33][36][34]

5. Whittier's Mabel Martin, and Other Poems.[34]

6. Holmes's Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, etc.[34]

7, 8, 9. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair: True Stories from New
England History. 1620-1803. In three parts.[36]

10. Hawthorne's Biographical Stories. With Questions.[34]

11. Longfellow's Children's Hour, and Other Selections.[34]

12. Studies in Longfellow. Thirty-two Topics for Study.

13, 14. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha. In two parts.[35]

15. Lowell's Under the Old Elm, and Other Poems.[34]

16. Bayard Taylor's Lars: a Pastoral of Norway; and Other Poems.

17, 18. Hawthorne's Wonder-Book. In two parts.[35]

19, 20. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiogra