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CONTENTS
PART I | |
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INTO MY OWN | 11 |
The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world. |
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GHOST HOUSE | 12 |
He is happy in society of his choosing. | |
MY NOVEMBER GUEST | 14 |
He is in love with being misunderstood. | |
LOVE AND A QUESTION | 15 |
He is in doubt whether to admit real trouble to a place beside the hearth with love. |
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A LATE WALK | 17 |
He courts the autumnal mood. | |
STARS | 18 |
There is no oversight of human affairs. | |
STORM FEAR | 19 |
He is afraid of his own isolation. | |
WIND AND WINDOW FLOWER | 20 |
Out of the winter things he fashions a story of modern love. |
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TO THE THAWING WIND | 22 |
He calls on change through the violence of the elements. |
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A PRAYER IN SPRING | 23 |
He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking thoughts; |
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FLOWER-GATHERING | 24 |
nor yet in any spur it may be to ambition. | |
ROSE POGONIAS | 25 |
He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature; |
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ASKING FOR ROSES | 27 |
nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe. | |
WAITING—Afield at Dusk | 29 |
He arrives at the turn of the year. | |
IN A VALE | 31 |
Out of old longings he fashions a story. | |
A DREAM PANG | 33 |
He is shown by a dream how really well it is with him. |
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IN NEGLECT | 34 |
He is scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach. | |
THE VANTAGE POINT | 35 |
And again scornful, but there is no one hurt. | |
MOWING | 36 |
He takes up life simply with the small tasks. | |
GOING FOR WATER | 37 |
PART II | |
REVELATION | 39 |
He resolves to become intelligible, at least to himself, since there is no help else; |
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THE TRIAL BY EXISTENCE | 40 |
and to know definitely what he thinks about the soul; |
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IN EQUAL SACRIFICE | 44 |
about love; | |
THE TUFT OF FLOWERS | 47 |
about fellowship; | |
SPOILS OF THE DEAD | 50 |
about death; | |
PAN WITH US | 52 |
about art (his own); | |
THE DEMIURGE'S LAUGH | 54 |
about science. | |
PART III | |
NOW CLOSE THE WINDOWS | 55 |
It is time to make an end of speaking. | |
A LINE-STORM SONG | 56 |
It is the autumnal mood with a difference. | |
OCTOBER | 58 |
He sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they were. |
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MY BUTTERFLY | 59 |
There are things that can never be the same. | |
RELUCTANCE | 62 |
A boy's will | ||