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Title: The World's Best Poetry Volume IV.

Author: Bliss Carman

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_THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY_

_I Home: Friendship
II Love
III Sorrow and Consolation
IV The Higher Life
V Nature
VI Fancy Sentiment
VII Descriptive: Narrative
VIII National Spirit
IX Tragedy: Humor
X Poetical Quotations_

THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY

IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED

Editor-in-Chief

BLISS CARMAN

Associate Editors

John Vance Cheney
Charles G.D. Roberts
Charles F. Richardson
Francis H. Stoddard

Managing Editor

John R. Howard

1904

The World's Best Poetry

Vol. IV

THE HIGHER LIFE

RELIGION AND POETRY
By
WASHINGTON GLADDEN

NOTICE OF COPYRIGHTS.

I.

American poems in this volume within the legal protection of copyright
are used by the courteous permission of the owners,--either the
publishers named in the following list or the authors or their
representatives in the subsequent one,--who reserve all their rights.
So far as practicable, permission has been secured also for poems out
of copyright.

PUBLISHERS OF THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. 1904.

Messrs. D. APPLETON & CO., New York.--_W.G. Bryant_: "The Future
Life."

The ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY, Cincinnati.--_W.D. Gallagher_: "The
Laborer."

Messrs. T.Y. CROWELL & CO., New York.--_S.K. Bolton_: "Her Creed."

Messrs. E.P. DUTTON & CO., New York.--_Ph. Brooks_: "O Little Town of
Bethlehem;" _E. Sears_: "The Angel's Song."

Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston.--_Alice Cary_: "My Creed;"
_Phoebe Cary_: "Nearer Home;" _J.F. Clarke_: "The Caliph and Satan,"
"Cana;" _R.W. Emerson_: "Brahma," "Good-bye," "The Problem;" _Louise
I. Guiney_: "Tryste Noel;" _J. Hay_: "Religion and Doctrine;" _C.W.
Holmes_: "The Living Temple;" _H.W. Longfellow_: "King Robert of
Sicily," "Ladder of St. Augustine