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MUSIC UNHEARD 39

ALL THAT'S PAST 41

WHEN THE ROSE IS FADED 43

SLEEP 44

THE STRANGER 45

NEVER MORE, SAILOR 47

THE WITCH 49

ARABIA 52

THE MOUNTAINS 54

QUEEN DJENIRA 55

NEVER-TO-BE 57

THE DARK CHATEAU 59

THE DWELLING-PLACE 61

THE LISTENERS 64

TIME PASSES 66

BEWARE! 68

THE JOURNEY 69

HAUNTED 74

SILENCE 76

WINTER DUSK 78

AGES AGO 80

HOME 82

THE GHOST 84

AN EPITAPH 85

'THE HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL' 86

THE THREE CHERRY TREES

There were three cherry trees once,
Grew in a garden all shady;
And there for delight of so gladsome a sight,
Walked a most beautiful lady,
Dreamed a most beautiful lady.

Birds in those branches did sing,
Blackbird and throstle and linnet,
But she walking there was by far the most fair--
Lovelier than all else within it,
Blackbird and throstle and linnet.

But blossoms to berries do come,
All hanging on stalks light and slender,
And one long summer's day charmed that lady away,
With vows sweet and merry and tender;
A lover with voice low and tender.

Moss and lichen the green branches deck;
Weeds nod in its paths green and shady:
Yet a light footstep seems there to wander in dreams,
The ghost of that beautiful lady,
That happy and beautiful lady.

OLD SUSAN

When Susan's work was done she'd sit,
With one fat guttering candle lit,
And window opened wide to win
The sweet night air to enter in;
There, with a thumb to keep her place
She'd read, with stern and wrinkled face,
Her mild eyes gliding very slow
Across the letters to and fro,
While wagged the guttering candle flame
In the wind that through the window came.
And sometimes in the silence she
Would mumble a sentence audibly,
Or shake he