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The Human Inheritance

The New Hope, Motherhood. By William Sharp

Sharp, William,1855-1905

[epigraph]

[dedication]

[section]

To E. A. S.

THE HUMAN INHERITANCE.

[prologue]

CYCLE I. CHILDHOOD'S INHERITANCE.

II.

CYCLE II. YOUTH'S INHERITANCE.

III.

CYCLE III. MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD'S INHERITANCE.

IV.

CYCLE IV. OLD AGE'S INHERITANCE.

THE NEW HOPE.

MOTHERHOOD.

TRANSCRIPTS FROM NATURE.

I. SUNRISE ABOVE BROAD WHEAT-FIELDS.

II.

II. THE STONE-BREAKER.

III.

III. WILD-ROSES.

IV.

IV. LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN ON MOUNTAIN-ASH BERRIES.

V. PINE-WOODS.

VI.

VI. THE WINDMILL.

VII.

VII. SEA-WRACK.

VIII.

VIII. THE BLUE HERON.

IX.

IX. SHELLS ON THE SEA-SHORE.

X. THE NIGHTINGALE.

XI.

XI. THE SWOLLEN RIVER.

XII.

XII. MOONLIGHT AT SEA.

XIII.

XIII. A DEAD CALM AND MIST.

XIV.

XIV. LABOURERS RETURNING HOME.

XV.

XV. A GREEN WAVE.

XVI.

XVI. MORNING GLORY.

XVII.

XVII. DAWN AMID SCOTCH FIRS.

XVIII.

XVIII. GROUND-LIGHTNING.

XIX.

XIX. THE EBBING TIDE.

XX.

XX. THE INCOMING TIDE.

XXI.

XXI. TWO OLD YEWS.

XXII.

XXII. PHOSPHORESCENT SEA. (I.)

XXIII.

XXIII. PHOSPHORESCENT SEA. (II.)

XXIV.

XXIV. PHOSPHORESCENT SEA. (III.)

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXIX.—PINES IN STORM.

XXX.

XXX.—THE LONELY LARCH.

LIFE.

TO THE SPIRIT CALLED LAUDANUM.

LINES.

THE REDEEMER.

LAST WORDS.

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LIFE.

“O sweet, sweet, sweet
Is life,” a bird sang loud;
And underneath a crowd
Listened with weary wayworn feet.
“How sweet,
O sweet, sweet, sweet!”

“O sad, sad, sad
Is life,” a bird thrilled loud;
And underneath, a crowd
Moaned also, with torn bleeding feet,
“How sad,
O sad, sad, sad!”