DAY 27

FALL 28

UNDERTONE 29

CONCLUSION 30

MONOCHROMES 32

DAYS AND DAYS 34

DROUTH IN AUTUMN 35

MID-WINTER 36

COLD 37

IN WINTER 38

ON THE FARM 39

PATHS 41

A SONG IN SEASON 43

APART 44

FAERY MORRIS 45

THE WORLD'S DESIRE 46

THE UNATTAINABLE 47

REMEMBERED 51

THE SEA SPIRIT 52

A DREAM SHAPE 53

THE VAMPIRE 54

WILL-O'-THE-WISP 56

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN 57

THE WERE-WOLF 59

THE TROGLODYTE 62

THE CITY OF DARKNESS 63

TRANSMUTATION 65

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UNDERTONES

THE DREAMER

Even as a child he loved to thrid the bowers,
And mark the loafing sunlight's lazy laugh;
Or, on each season, spell the epitaph
Of its dead months repeated in their flowers;
Or list the music of the strolling showers,
Whose vagabond notes strummed through a twinkling staff;
Or read the day's delivered monograph
Through all the chapters of its daedal hours.
Still with the same child-faith and child-regard
He looks on Nature, hearing, at her heart,
The beautiful beat out the time and place,
Whereby no lesson of this life is hard,
No struggle vain of science or of art,
That dies with failure written on its face.

QUIET

A log-hut in the solitude,
A clapboard roof to rest beneath!
This side, the shadow-haunted wood;
That side, the sunlight-haunted heath.

At daybreak Morn shall come to me
In raiment of the white winds spun;
Slim in her rosy hand the key
That opes the gateway of the sun.

Her smile shall help my heart enough
With love to labor all the day,
And cheer the road, whose rocks are rough,
With her smooth footprints, each a ray.

At dusk a voice shall call afar,
A lone voice like the whippoorwill's;
And, on her shimmering brow one star,
Night shall descend the western hills.

She at my door till dawn shall stand,
With Gothic eyes, that, dark and deep,
Are mirrors of a mystic land,
Fantastic with the towns of sleep.

UNQUALIFIED

Not his the part to win the goal,
The flaming goal that flies befor