NEW YORK
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
1918

COPYRIGHT 1915 BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY

The greater part of this poem was delivered before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in June, 1911; several passages from it have appeared in Poetry, and others in The Bellman, the Boston Evening Transcript and the American Magazine.

Printed in America

To
Celia

The New World

I

Celia was laughing. Hopefully I said: