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Title: Days and Dreams
Poems

Author: Madison J. Cawein

Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31764]

Language: English

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DAYS AND DREAMS

POEMS

BY

MADISON CAWEIN

AUTHOR OF "LYRICS AND IDYLS," "THE TRIUMPH
OF MUSIC," ETC., ETC.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
27 West Twenty-third St. 27 King William St., Strand

The Knickerbocker Press
1891

COPYRIGHT, 1891
BY
MADISON CAWEIN

The Knickerbocker Press, New York
Printed and Bound by
G. P. Putnam's Sons

TO
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
WITH
ADMIRATION AND REGARD

_O lyrist of the lowly and the true,
The song I sought for you
Hides yet unsung. What hope for me to find,
Lost in the daedal mind,
The living utterance with lovely tongue!
To say, as erst was sung
By Ariosto of Knight-errantry,--
Through lands of Poesy,
Song's Paladin, knight of the dream and day,
The wizard shield you sway
Of that Atlantes power, sweet and terse,
The skyey-builded verse:
The shield that dazzles, brilliant with surprise,
Our unanointed eyes.--
Oh, had I written as 't were worthy you,
Each line, a spark of dew,--
As once Ferdusi shone in Persia,--
Had strung each rosy spray
Of the unfolding flower of each song;
And Iran's bulbul tongue
Had sobbed its heart out o'er the fountain's slab
In gardens of Afrasiab._

CONTENTS.

PAGE

ONE DAY AND ANOTHER 1

DAYS AND DREAMS 93

DEITY 95

SELF 97

SELF AND SOUL 99

THE DREAM OF DREAD 102

DEATH IN LIFE