Underneath the Bough: A Book of Verses

by George Allan England

CONTENTS.

		PAGE.
I.	The Race of the Mighty	[1]
II.	Songs & Sonnets.
	Love Beatified	[9]
	Morning, Noon and Night	[10]
	Dante	[11]
	Love’s Blindness	[12]
	Hesperides	[13]
	My Garden	[18]
	Erinnerungen	[19]
	The Battle Royal	[20]
	España	[21]
	Love’s Fear	[22]
	Longings	[23]
	Horace, IV, 8	[24]
	Ricordatevi Di Me!	[26]
	The Tower	[28]
	Love’s Prayer	[30]
	Combien J’ai Douce Souvenance	[31]
	My Little Red Devil and I	[33]
	The College Pump	[37]
	I Disputanti	[38]
	Quand Vous Serez Bien Vieille	[39]
	One Summer Night	[40]
	A Une Fleurette	[42]
	Blest Be the Day	[43]
	Mignonne Allons Voir Si La Rose	[44]
	Religion	[45]
	The Great Woods Were Awakening	[46]
	I-N-R-I	[47]
	Fayre Robyn	[48]
	Coeur de Femme	[51]
III.	Ballades & Rondeaux
	Ballade of the Sick	[54]
	Three Rondeaux from Charles d’Orléans	[56]
	The Song of the Poor	[59]
	Kyrielle	[62]
	Rondeau	[64]
	When I First Saw Edmée	[65]
	My Old Coat	[66]
	A Pantoum	[68]
	When Doris Deigns	[70]
IV.	The Year
	Spring—May Evening	[72]
	Summer—August Rain	[73]
	Autumn—November in Cambridge	[74]
	Winter—Hampton Holidays	[75]
V.	Mors Omnium Victor
	Gunga Din in Hell	[78]
	Cui Bono?	[79]
	The Bride-Bed	[80]
	Dead Loves	[81]
	Death the Friend	[82]
	La Jeune Fille	[83]
	Lucie	[84]
	Luctus in Morte Passeris	[89]
	Death in December	[90]
	The Royal Council	[92]
	Carmen Mortis	[93]

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THE RACE OF THE MIGHTY

The Race of the Mighty[A]

THE START

THE appointed time at length the dials show.

“Attention, both!... Now, are you ready?... Go!!”

The chauffeur grips his lever with a hand

Of steel.—A leap!—A flash of wheels! A grand