CONTENTS

The Passing of the StormPage
I.The Storm[17]
II.A Chapter from an Old Man's Life[28]
III.The Prisoner[36]
IV.A Sequel of the Lost Cause[49]
V.The Avalanche[58]
VI.The Rescue[65]
VII.The Blight of War[72]
VIII.The Story of an Exile[93]
IX.Conclusion[115]
Dolores[120]
Great Shepherd of the Countless Flocks of Stars[122]
The Ruined Cabin[123]
An Idyll[124]
The Borderland of Sleep[125]
Stellar Nocturne[126]
Father, at Thy Altar Kneeling[127]
Dreams[128]
Nocturne[129]
The True Faith[131]
A Fragment[131]
Mortality[132]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing Page
[ "The mountains lay in calm repose
Slumbering 'neath their robes of white."]		Title.
[ "As stormy cowls their summits hid."]17
[ "Exceeding the tremendous height
Of brother peaks, on left and right."]		26
[ "Beseamed with countless scars and rents
From combat with the elements."]		30
[ "He towered with mute and massive form
A challenge to the gathering storm."]		40
[ "With swift and spoliating flow,
Uprooting many a noble tree,
To strew the desert's waste below,
With scattered drift-wood and debris."]		50
[ "Arrayed in Nature's pristine dress
This was, indeed, a wilderness."]		62
[ "We grew as two twin pines might grow,
Upon some isolated edge,
Of some lone precipice or ledge."]		70
[ "The noble spruce and stately fir
Stood draped in feathery garniture."]		114
[ "From the mountain peaks crested with snow]120
[ "High up on the cliffs in their dwellings
Which were apertures walled up with rocks,
Lived this people, sequestered and happy;
Their dwellings now serve the wild fox."]		126
[ "As it fearlessly leaps o'er the rocky wall
From the mountain peaks stern and hoary."]		130
[ "I love the lake in the mountain's lap."]134

[ as stormy cowls their summits hid]

As stormy cowls their summits hid.

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The Passing of the Storm