THE OPEN SEA

By
EDGAR LEE MASTERS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1921,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1921.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

[PART I]
PAGE
[Brutus][3]
[Brutus and Antony][3]
[At the Mermaid Tavern][17]
[Charlotte Corday][31]
[A Man Child is Born][49]
[Richard Booth to His Son, Junius Booth][52]
[A Man Child is Born][57]
[Squire Bowling Green][58]
[Lincoln Speaking in Congress][63]
[John Wilkes Booth at the Farm][64]
[Junius Brutus Booth][66]
[A Certain Poet on the Debates][71]
[PART II]
[The Decision][81]
[PART III]
[Lincoln Makes a Memorandum][117]
[Winter Garden Theatre][118]
[The Sparrow Hawk in the Rain][120]
[Adelaide and John Wilkes Booth][134]
[Brutus Lives Again in Booth][140]
[Booth’s Philippi][151]
[The Burial of Boston Corbett{vi}][160]
[The New Apocrypha][163]
[Business Reverses][163]
[The Fig Tree][166]
[Tribute Money][169]
[The Great Merger][171]
[At Decapolis][174]
[The Single Standard][178]
[First Entrants][183]
[John in Prison][186]
[Ananias and Sapphira][190]
[The Two Malefactors][193]
[Berenice][202]
[Nebuchadnezzar or Eating Grass][212]
[Hip Lung on Yuan Chang][220]
[Ulysses][225]
[The Party][232]
[Celsus at Hadrian’s Villa][238]
[Invoation to the Gods][248]
[Pentheus in These States][253]
[Comparative Criminals][262]
[The Great Race Passes][270]
[Demos the Despot][272]
[A Republic][275]
[The Inn][277]
[Monody on the Death of William Marion Reedy][285]
[God and My Country][290]
[The Dunes of Indiana][295]
[Nature][299]