68
The Rainbow's End 69

LINEN AND LACE

Down Lover's Lane 73
Beneath the Chestnut Tree 74
Jack and Jill 77
Natura 78
Her Eyes 80
The Rose of Love 81
My Jewels 83
A Recollection 84
The Moonshiners 85
Silhouettes 90
Wade 92
A Song 93
The Bloom of Love 95
My Muse 96

A HANK OF HOMESPUN

The School of Skinny 99
One-Armed Joe 101
Wes Perkins 103
The First Mess of Greens 105
Wes Banks 107
Philosophy at a Banquet 109
Anent Halley's Comet 110

PROEM

_Warp and woof from the loom of Life--_
_A fabric wrought in endless strife:--_
_Lights and shadows, night and day,_
_A thousand tints of gold and gray--_
_Ten thousand shades in leaf and bloom,_
_WARP and WOOF from Life's great Loom._

A SKEIN OF SILVER

THE OLD-FASHIONED LOOM

The old log house where Margaret lived, whose roof had mossy grown,
Reposed amid its clump of trees, a queen upon her throne.
The landscape round smiled proudly and the flowers shed sweet perfume,
When Margaret plied the shuttle of the rude old-fashioned loom.

The world has grown fastidious--demands things ever new--
But we could once see beauties in the rainbow's every hue;
The bee could then find nectar