. At early candle light and other poems. ed laysSeem all too smooth to fitly phraseThe making of the mighty West, No eagles sweeps as, rozmd and round, He climbs the amplitude of airOn fearless wing, will here be found;The warbling white-throafs low, clear sound And wavering flight is all I dare. PROEM Here winds the woodbine^ wet with deWyAnd here the canes of cat-tails grow ;Here lift the bells of larkspurs blucyAnd morning-glories such as grewFrom out the loam of lo7ig ago. Here doth the swallow write her runes071 the palimpsest of the pool ; The chevroned blackbird fifes his tunes ; The cr
. At early candle light and other poems. ed laysSeem all too smooth to fitly phraseThe making of the mighty West, No eagles sweeps as, rozmd and round, He climbs the amplitude of airOn fearless wing, will here be found;The warbling white-throafs low, clear sound And wavering flight is all I dare. PROEM Here winds the woodbine^ wet with deWyAnd here the canes of cat-tails grow ;Here lift the bells of larkspurs blucyAnd morning-glories such as grewFrom out the loam of lo7ig ago. Here doth the swallow write her runes071 the palimpsest of the pool ; The chevroned blackbird fifes his tunes ; The crocks of cream, like golden twilight in the dairy cool. Here blows the sce7it by sweetbrier made; Here cameo acorns strike the sod;The glow-worm^ s lantern lights the smile of stars on snow-fields laid. Where earth, asleep, doth dreaTn of God. One heaped-up harvest now is mine; Fari7ig so far with 7iature hathHealed mi7ie own heart; a7id if one li7ieShall win me fellowship with thine, The7i co77ieth 171 my CONTENTS PAOB Proem, _ Knee Deep, 9 When the GoIvD is on the Wii,i,ow, - - - - 12 The Sugar Camp, 16 The Country Road, 20 His Sweethearts Throat, 23 Stand By, 26 He Leadeth Me, 28 Where the Oak Log Crossed the Stream, - - - 33 O Christmas Day, 36 His Mark, 38 Mirror Lake, 39 AT Eari,y Candi^e Light, 41 Dead in Khartoum, 43 The Oi,d Traii,, 45 O Christmas Tree, 48 Easter Morning, tq Logan of Ii^unois, 53 Our White Ladye, • 55 The Breadwinners Bai,i,ad, 57 On the Timber-Line, 61 Sassafras, 63 Four Feet on the Fender, 65 The River of Lost , 68 Th« Whisti^ing Boy, 71 7 8 CONTENTS PAGE The LiI/ACS, 74 What You Did Not Say, 77 ?• Hardscrabbi^e and Highstkepi^e, - - - - 79 — Comrade Hayes, 81 * The Cider Press, 83 *«— The Boy Who Never Returned, 85 James Newton Matthews, 87 Joseph, 88 IvOVE Is Enough, 90 Ai,i<s ,, 92 Pretty Soon, 94 What Is Your Life? 96 The Day We Seined the Dam, . - . 98 The Zion Church, 100
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