DEDICATION.

TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, WHOSE DEVOTION, ENERGY, AND
PERSEVERANCE LED ME TO DRINK AT THE FOUNTAIN OF
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH, UNTIL I SAW BEAUTY THEREIN,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

The true end of life is to elevate man
In body, in mind, and in spirit,
That here he may serve some beneficent plan,
Then a mansion in heaven inherit.

INDEX.

PAGE.
[A Beacon Light][129]
[A Boy][81]
[A Lesson from Nature][189]
[All Things are Second-handed][212]
[Alone][140]
[Amityville][215]
[An Open Book][175]
[A Picture][200]
[Arbor Day Tribute][84]
[Artist Nature][119]
[Boding Snow][174]
[Buttercups and Daisies][87]
[Communion with Nature][96]
[Courage and Faith][26]
[Discontent][132]
[Drifting Away][158]
[Duty Done][42]
[Ere and at my Call][173]
[Evil Habits][56]
[Faces I Read][214]
[Fact versus Form][29]
[Fidelity][219]
[Finis][231]
[Fragments][127]
[Good Habits][53]
[Heartstrings][147]
[Important Moments][166]
[Incompetence][27]
[Indulgence][61]
[Interest][31]
[Invocation to the Muse][9]
[Kindred Spirits][160]
[Lake George, N. Y.][106]
[Liberty][154]
[Lies][145]
[Life's Emergencies][58]
["Lo," The Departed][157]
[Love][142]
[Many][40]
[Maple at my Father's Door][115]
[Memory][130]
[Memory and Reason][32]
[Mind Awakened][71]
[Mirrors][39]
[Morning Flowers][118]
[Mountain Brook][99]
[Music][120]
[My Brother's Birthday][196]
[My Choice][76]
[My Mother's Love][192]
[My Room in Boyhood's Days][202]
[Nature's Child][105]
[Nature's Voice][204]
[Needs and Powers][19]
[Oceanus' Mirrors][116]
[On Brooklyn Bridge][183]
[Our Battlefield][49]
[Our Politics][134]
[Our Profession][11]
[Perhaps][165]
[Pious Pie Poem Puns][218]
[Poundridge, N. Y.][205]
[Rest][123]
[Retrospection][138]
[Robin Redbreast][110]
[Rye][95]
[School Days][162]
[Selfishness][137]
[Some Characters I Can't Admire][180]
[Some Characters I Much Adore][177]
[Soul Speaks to Soul][48]
[Strand Despair][60]
[Success][125]
[Sunset][135]
[Survival of the Fittest][66]
[The Dandelion][90]
[The Desirable Undefined][34]
[The Difference][67]
[The Evening before my Brother's Fifty-third Birthday][194]
[The Farmer][112]
[The Flowers I Love][91]
[The Fringed Gentian][89]
[The Future][170]
[The Goldenrod][86]
[The Hair][152]
[Their Life is what they Make It][185]
[The Lone Bird][187]
[The Morning Glory][94]
[The Ogre][72]
[The Old Farm][114]
[The Requirements of the Hour][80]
[The Rose][85]
[The Second Sunday in May][104]
[The Senses][44]
[The Stream's Story][102]
[The Teacher's Soliloquy][63]
[The Thrush][108]
[The Tree of State][82]
[The Unwritten Letter][210]
[The Voice][198]
[Tim][208]
[To a Mountain Brook][101]
[To My Daughter Blanche in Heaven][197]
[Trailing Arbutus][93]
[True Wealth][217]
[Twilight Hour][150]
[Who Knows?][149]
[Who Shall Judge?][169]

INVOCATION TO THE MUSE.