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Title: Undertones
Author: Madison J. Cawein
Release Date: April 7, 2010 [EBook #31913]
Language: English
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UNDERTONES
By
Madison Cawein
OATEN STOP SERIES
III
VNDERTONES
BY MADISON CAWEIN
BOSTON COPELAND AND DAY
M D CCC XCVI
COPYRIGHT 1896 BY COPELAND AND DAY
INSCRIBED TO THE PATHETIC
MEMORY OF THE POET
HENRY TIMROD
_Long are the days, and three times long the nights.
The weary hours are a heavy chain
Upon the feet of all Earth's dear delights,
Holding them ever prisoners to pain.
What shall beguile me to believe again
In hope, that faith within her parable writes
Of life, care reads with eyes whose tear-drops stain?
Shall such assist me to subdue the heights?
Long is the night, and over long the day.--
The burden of all being!--is it worse
Or better, lo! that they who toil and pray
May win not more than they who toil and curse?
A little sleep, a little love, ah me!
And the slow weigh up the soul's Calvary!_
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE DREAMER 1
QUIET 2
UNQUALIFIED 3
UNENCOURAGED ASPIRATION 3
THE WOOD 4
WOOD NOTES 5
SUCCESS 7
SONG 7
THE OLD SPRING 8
HILLS OF THE WEST 10
FLOWERS 11
SECOND SIGHT 12
DEAD SEA FRUIT 13
THE WOOD WITCH 14
AT SUNSET 16
MAY 17
THE WIND OF SPRING 18
INTERPRETED 19
THE WILLOW BOTTOM 20
THE OLD BARN 22
CLEARING 23
REQUIEM 25
AT LAST 26
A DARK
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