IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS AMIABLE CONDESCENSION IN LENDING HIS EXQUISITELY DELICATE ART TO THE EMBELLISHMENT OF THESE POOR VERSES FROM HIS SINCEREST ADMIRER

THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS.

Page
The Bashful Earthquake[1]
The Lovesick Scarecrow[7]
The Music of the Future[9]
Song[11]
The Doorless Wolf[12]
The Bold Bad Butterfly[15]
Crumbs[20]
Japanesque[21]
The Difference[22]
Why ye Blossome Cometh before ye Leafe[23]
The First First of April[24]
The Epigrammatist[26]
The Silver Lining[28]
The Boastful Butterfly[31]
The Three Wishes[35]
Truth[37]
The Tragic Mice[38]
Absence of Mind[40]
The Graduate[41]
The Poet’s Proposal[44]
A Three-sided Question[45]
The Snail’s Dream[51]
A Christmas Legend[52]
Hyde and Seeke[54]
In the Café[55]
The Legend of the Lily[58]
The Untutored Giraffe[60]
The Enchanted Wood[64]
A Bunny Romance[68]
The Flower Circus[72]
The Fatuous Flower[77]
A Love Story[80]
Ye Knyghte-Mare[83]
Metaphysics[84]
The Princess that was n’t[86]
The Lion’s Tour[89]
The Fugitive Thought[93]
The Cussed Damozel[97]
A Gas-log Reverie[101]
Cupid’s Fault[103]
All Aboard[104]
Killing Time[105]
The Mermaid Club[107]
A Song[109]
Angel’s Toys[110]
The Reformed Tigress[112]
Two Ladies[115]
To the Wolf at the Door[119]
The Fall of J. W. Beane[121]

THE BASHFUL EARTHQUAKE

Crime, Wickedness, Villany, Vice,
And Sin only misery bring;