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CONTENTS

THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY ETC.

• THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY . . . 9
• THE LAST CÆSAR . . . 15
• IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . . . 21
• ALEC YEATON'S SON . . . 23
• AT THE FUNERAL OF A MINOR POET . . . 27
• BATUSCHKA . . . 31
• ACT V . . . 33
• TENNYSON . . . 35
• THE SHIPMAN'S TALE . . . 37
• "I VEX ME NOT WITH BROODING ON THE YEARS" . . . 39
• MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS . . . 40

INTERLUDES

• ECHO-SONG . . . 47
• A MOOD . . . 50
• GUILIELMUS REX . . . 51
• "PILLARED ARCH AND SCULPTURED TOWER . . . 53
• THRENODY . . . 54
• SESTET . . . 56
• A TOUCH OF NATURE . . . 57
• MEMORY . . . 58
• "I'LL NOT CONFER WITH SORROW" . . . 59

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• A DEDICATION . . . 60
• NO SONGS IN WINTER . . . 61
• "LIKE CRUSOE, WALKING BY THE LONELY STRAND" . . . 62
• THE LETTER . . . 63
• SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT "THE PLAYERS" . . . 65

• PAULINE PAVLOVNA . . . 69

BAGATELLE.

• CORYDON: A PASTORAL . . . 87
• AT A READING . . . 92
• THE MENU . . . 95
• AN ELECTIVE COURSE . . . 97
• L'EAU DORMANTE . . . 101
• THALIA . . . 103
• PALINODE . . . 107
• A PETITION . . . 108