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Title: Mountain idylls, and Other Poems

Author: Alfred Castner King

Release Date: October 20, 2004 [EBook #13809]

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Mountain Idylls
and Other Poems

BY
ALFRED CASTNER KING

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Table of Contents.

Preface
Grandeur
Nature's Child
To the Pines
Reflections
Life's Mystery
The Fallen Tree
There is an Air of Majesty
Think Not That the Heart Is Devoid of Emotion
Humanity's Stream
Nature's Lullaby
The Spirit of Freedom Is Born of the Mountains
The Valley of the San Miguel
To Mother Huberta
Suggested by a Mountain Eagle
The Silvery San Juan
As the Shifting Sands of the Desert
Missed
If I Have Lived Before
The Darker Side
The Miner
Life's Undercurrent
They Cannot See the Wreaths We Place
Mother--Alpha and Omega
Empty Are the Mother's Arms
In Deo Fides
Shall Love, as the Bridal Wreath, Wither and Die
Shall Our Memories Live When the Sod Rolls Above Us
A Reverie
Love's Plea
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Despair
Hidden Sorrows
Oh, a Beautiful Thing Is the Flower That Fadeth
Smiles
A Request
Battle Hymn
The Nation's Peril
Echoes From Galilee
Go, and Sin No More
Gently Lead Me, Star Divine
Dying Hymn
In Mortem Meditare
Deprive This Strange and Complex World
The Legend of St. Regimund
As the Indian
The Fragrant Perfume of the Flowers
An Answer
Fame
The First Storm
Thoughts
From a Saxon Legend
Christmas Chimes
The Unknowable
The Su