FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD

BY ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY

WITH DECORATIONS BY J.E.H. MACDONALD A.R.C.A.

First published by McClelland & Stewart, Limited, Toronto, 1922.

The thanks of the author are due to the editors of Ainslee’s Magazine, The American Magazine, The Canadian Magazine, Canadian Home Journal, The Canadian Bookman, The Forum, The Globe, Harper’s Magazine, The Independent, The Ladies’ World, McClure’s Magazine, Metropolitan Magazine, The Reader Magazine, Scribner’s Magazine, Saturday Night, and The Youth’s Companion for permission to publish this verse in its present form.

CONTENTS

• FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD
• WHEN AS A LAD
• LAUREATE
• OUT OF BABYLON
• LAST SPRING
• PRESENCE
• IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN
• ROSE DOLORES
• A PILGRIM
• SPRING WILL COME
• COSMOS
• THE SECRET
• I WATCH SWIFT PICTURES
• FEAR
• RESURRECTION
• THE LOST NAME
• THE HAPPY TRAVELLER
• THE DEAD BRIDE
• THE CROCUS BED
• THE VISION
• THE MIRACLE
• THE HOMESTEADER
• WET WEATHER
• THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
• DOWN AT THE DOCKS
• LAKE LOUISE
• THE GATEKEEPER
• THE BRIDGE BUILDER
• THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL
• CALGARY STATION
• VALE
• THE WAY TO WAIT
• THE PASSER BY
• FIRST LOVE
• SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP
• JOSEPH
• A CHRISTMAS CHILD
• SPRING IN NAZARETH
• INHERITANCE
• SONG OF THE SLEEPER
• THE TYRANT