CONTENTS

I.Prelude[1]
II.Little Rivers[7]
III.A Leaf of Spearmint[37]
IV.Ampersand[67]
V.A Handful of Heather[93]
VI.The Ristigouche from a Horse-Yacht[135]
VII.Alpenrosen and Goat’s-Milk[165]
VIII.Au Large[215]
IX.Trout-Fishing in the Traun[267]
X.At the Sign of the Balsam Bough[295]
XI.A Song after Sundown[337]
Index[341]

ILLUSTRATIONS
From drawings by F. V. DuMond

The noise of the falls makes constant musicFrontispiece [iv]
Facing page
The farmers’ daughters with bare arms and gowns tucked up[30]
The bed whereon memory loves to lie and dream[40]
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature[120]
Lulling and soothing the mind into a quietude[162]
The same that Titian saw[174]
The moon slips up into the sky from behind the Eastern hills[292]
If I should ever become a dryad I should choose to be transformed into a white birch[304]

PRELUDE