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To

HARRISON S. MORRIS

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A Table of Contents

_The Evanescent Beautiful_ 1

_August_ 2

_The Higher Brotherhood_ 4

_Gramarye_ 5

_Dreams_ 7

_The Old House_ 8

_The Rock_ 10

_Rain_ 12

_Standing-Stone Creek_ 13

_The Moonmen_ 15

_The Old Man Dreams_ 19

_Since Then_ 20

_Comrades_ 21

_Waiting_ 23

_Contrasts_ 24

_In June_ 25

_After long Grief and Pain_ 26

_Can I forget?_ 27

_The House of Fear_ 28

_At Dawn_ 29

_Storm_ 30

_Memories_ 31

_Which_ 32

_Sunset in Autumn_ 34

_The Legend of the Stone_ 36

_Time and Death and Love_ 40

_Passion_ 41

_When the Wine-Cup at the Lip_ 42

_Art_ 43

_A Song for Old Age_ 45

_Tristram and Isolt_ 46

_The Better Lot_ 47

_Dusk in the Woods_ 48

_At the Ferry_ 50

_Her Violin_ 52

_Her Vesper Song_ 54

_At Parting_ 55

_Carissima Mea_ 56

_Margery_ 59

_Constance_ 61

_Gertrude_ 63

_Lydia_ 64

_A Southern Girl_ 65

_A Daughter of the States_ 66

_An Autumn Night_ 67

_Lines_ 68

_The Blind God_ 69

_A Valentine_ 70

_A Catch_ 71

_The New Year_ 73

_Then and Now_ 75

_Epilogue_ 76

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The Dedication

_Ah, not for us the Heavens that hold_
GOD'S _message of Promethean fire!
The Flame that fell on bards of old
To hallow and inspire._

_Yet let the Soul dream on and dar