Jenkins & McCowan,

NEW YORK.

The poems in this volume have been collected with reference to their similarity of tone. They are variations on a single theme, more or less aptly suggested by the title, Low Tide on Grand Pré. It seemed better to bring together between the same covers only those pieces of work which happened to be in the same key, rather than to publish a larger book of more uncertain aim.

B. C.

By Grand Pré, September, 1893.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Low Tide on Grand Pré[11]
Why[15]
The Unreturning[18]
A Windflower[19]
In Lyric Season[21]
The Pensioners[23]
At the Voice of a Bird[27]
When the Guelder Roses Bloom[31]
Seven Things[44]
A Sea Child[47]
Pulvis et Umbra[48]
Through the Twilight[61]
Carnations in Winter[63]
A Northern Vigil[65]
The Eavesdropper[73]
In Apple Time[77]
Wanderer[79]
Afoot[89]
Wayfaring[94]
The End of the Trail[103]
The Vagabonds[111]
Whither[118]

TO

S. M. C.