Ah, who can tell which guide were… To truth long sought, but unattain… The early faith, or late unrest? What age has earned, or boyhood ga… When down life’s vista as we gaze,

CAN one so strong in hope, so ric… That promised fruit of nobler wort… He yet had given, drop thus with s… The busy brain no more its work re… Can death for life so versatile fi…

SHALL that bright flower the cou… And travailed to bring forth—shall… Whose bloom and fragrance earth an… Their treasuries to enrich, by dea… Its matchless splendor trampled do…

HEAVY with cares no winnowing ha… Wrapt in a sadness never to be tol… As o’er the fields and through the… Following with restless footstep b… Of the still August morn, so I mi…

So, heralded by Reason, Faith may… The darkened vale, the dolorous pa… In the great thought secure that l… Flow from the Soul of all, who, w… As with the living, is the fountai…

IN the old void of unrecorded tim… In long, slow æons of the voiceles… A seed from out the weltering fire… Took root—a struggling plant that… Through rudiments uncouth, through…

FAR Off among the fields and mea… The August noon bends o’er a worl… In the blue sky the white clouds p… To paint broad shadows on the wood… And upland farms. A brooding sile…

ALL loves have frailer roots than… From one ancestral blood. The fri… In youth pass on before us, or beh… Are dropped, or on diverging paths… While branches from one trunk stil…

HAD I, instead of unsonorous wor… The skill that moves in rapturous… And modulations of entrancing chor… Through mystic mazes of all harmon… The bounding pulses of an overture

‘NAUGHT but the fittest lives,’… Ring on the northern breeze of tho… ‘To Nature’s heart the strong are… The weak must pass unloved, unsoug… And yet in undertones a voice

I NEEDS must praise the natural… Who praises not himself, nor seeks… Too unambitious for these emulous… When each small talent seeks the p… And victors’ wreaths are worn befo…

THOU, so far, we grope to grasp… Thou, so near, we cannot clasp the… Thou, so wise, our prayers grow he… Thou, so loving, they are needless… In each human soul thou shinest,

I WAITED through the night, whi… The breath of roses through my dar… The whispering breeze just stirred… Beyond the window. On the lawn th… Lay glistening in the starlight.…

ON the high road travelling stead… Sure, alert, and ever ready, Prompt to seize all fit occasion, Courting power and wealth and stat… One clear aim before him keeping

IF at one door stands life to che… And at another, death, to mock bec… We thought life’s promise good; if… And is and should be ends in fume… Then let us live for joy alone—the…