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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 | |