CONTENTS

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The Black Panther[3]
I. Dim Wisdoms
NIGHT HAS ITS FEAR[7]
THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE[12]
OCTOBER MOONLIGHT[13]
THE FLESH AND THE DREAM[15]
VAUDEVILLE[16]
1914[18]
THE BELOVÈD[19]
PROUD DOOM[21]
THE SECRET ONE[22]
THE UNDISSUADABLE AUSTERITY[25]
BLIND PLAYERS[26]
TRAVAIL[28]
THE POET TELLS OF HIS LOVE[29]
THE BURIED DREAM[31]
HAUNTED EARTH[32]
LONG AGO[34]
TCHAIKOVSKY: FIFTH SYMPHONY[35]
MIRROR[36]
PLAINT[38]
ANDANTE[39]
THE DEAR MYSTERY[42]
IN THE DARK CITY[43]
II. Space and Solitude
IMMENSITY[47]
SEA-HORIZONS[48]
OF DAY CAME NIGHT[51]
PILGRIM[53]
BY THE GRAY SEA[54]
THE FISH-HAWK[55]
DISDAINFUL BEAUTY[57]
MY LONELY ONE[58]
III. The Lost Traveller’s Dream
WILD THOUGHT[63]
JOURNEY’S END[64]
BELATED LOVE[65]
A LEAVE-TAKING[66]
BUT LOVE—[72]
ANNE[73]
THE SILENCE[74]
EXULTATION[75]
SONG OF SONGS[77]
SORROWFUL FREEDOM[78]
STARLESS MORNING[79]
PHANTOM[80]
LEGEND[81]
IV. The Divine Fantasy[85]
The Lion-House[97]

THE BLACK PANTHER

There is a panther caged within my breast;

But what his name, there is no breast shall know

Save mine, nor what it is that drives him so,

Backward and forward, in relentless quest—

That silent rage, baffled but unsuppressed,