Gloucester Moors and Other Poems

By William Vaughn Moody
GLOUCESTER MOORS and Other Poems. 12mo, $1.25. THE FIRE-BRINGER. 12mo, $1.10, net . Postage 8 cents. THE MASQUE OF JUDGMENT. 12mo, $1.50.
THE GREAT DIVIDE. 12mo, $1.00, net . Postage 10 cents. THE FAITH HEALER. 12mo, $1.00, net . Postage 10 cents.
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COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Several poems of this collection, including An Ode in Time of Hesitation, The Brute, and On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines, have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly ; Gloucester Moors and Faded Pictures, in Scribner's Magazine ; and The Ride Back, under a different title in the Chap-Book . The author is indebted to the editors of these periodicals for leave to reprint.

A mile behind is Gloucester town Where the fishing fleets put in, A mile ahead the land dips down And the woods and farms begin. Here, where the moors stretch free In the high blue afternoon, Are the marching sun and talking sea, And the racing winds that wheel and flee On the flying heels of June.
Jill-o'er-the-ground is purple blue, Blue is the quaker-maid, The wild geranium holds its dew Long in the boulder's shade. Wax-red hangs the cup From the huckleberry boughs, In barberry bells the grey moths sup, Or where the choke-cherry lifts high up Sweet bowls for their carouse.
Over the shelf of the sandy cove Beach-peas blossom late.
By copse and cliff the swallows rove Each calling to his mate. Seaward the sea-gulls go, And the land-birds all are here; That green-gold flash was a vireo, And yonder flame where the marsh-flags grow Was a scarlet tanager.