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The Stranger at the Gate

  
[title page]
  
[dedication]
  
CONTENTS

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The Stranger At the Gate
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I THE WEAVERS
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II THE STORY
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III THE NEWS
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IV IN THE NIGHT
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V BREAK OF DAY
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VI DAWN SONG
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VII END OF SUMMER
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VIII VISION
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IX TRIUMPH
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X HERITAGE
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XI LULLABY
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THE POET'S TOWN
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[poem]
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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IX
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X
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XI
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XII
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XIII
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PRAIRIE STORM RUNE
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
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THE GHOSTLY BROTHER
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THE POET'S ADVICE
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I
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II
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MORNING GLORIES
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THE LYRIC
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GLAUCUS
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MONEY
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THE RED WIND COMES!
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CRY OF THE PEOPLE

  
EXTRACTS FROM APPRECIATAIONS OF "MAN-SONG"
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II

These were his fields Elysian:
With mystic eyes he saw
The sowers planting vision,
The reapers gleaming awe.
Serfs to a sordid duty,
He saw them with his heart,
Priests of the Ultimate Beauty,
Feeding the flame of art.
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The weird, untempled Makers
Pulsed in the things he saw;
The wheat through its virile acres
Billowed the Song of Law.
The epic roll of the furrow
Flung from the writing plow,
The dactyl phrase of the green-rowed maize
Measured the music of Now.
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