LIBERTY

THE PASSING OF "BOSS" SHEPHERD

TO MAUDE

THE BIRTH OF VIRTUE

STONEMAN IN HEAVEN

THE SCURRIL PRESS

STANLEY

ONE OF THE UNFAIR SEX

THE LORD'S PRAYER ON A COIN

A LACKING FACTOR

THE ROYAL JESTER

A CAREER IN LETTERS

THE FOLLOWING PAIR

POLITICAL ECONOMY

VANISHED AT COCK-CROW

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN

INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT

TEMPORA MUTANTUR

CONTENTMENT

THE NEW ENOCH

DISAVOWAL

AN AVERAGE

WOMAN

INCURABLE

THE PUN

A PARTISAN'S PROTEST

TO NANINE

VICE VERSA

A BLACK-LIST

A BEQUEST TO MUSIC

AUTHORITY

THE PSORIAD

ONEIROMANCY

PEACE

THANKSGIVING

L'AUDACE

THE GOD'S VIEW-POINT

THE AESTHETES

JULY FOURTH

WITH MINE OWN PETARD

CONSTANCY

SIRES AND SONS

A CHALLENGE

TWO SHOWS

A POET'S HOPE

THE WOMAN AND THE DEVIL

TWO ROGUES

BEECHER

NOT GUILTY

PRESENTIMENT

A STUDY IN GRAY

A PARADOX

FOR MERIT

A BIT OF SCIENCE

THE TABLES TURNED

TO A DEJECTED POET

A FOOL

THE HUMORIST

MONTEFIORE

A WARNING

DISCRETION

AN EXILE

THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT

PSYCHOGRAPHS

TO A PROFESSIONAL EULOGIST

FOR WOUNDS

ELECTION DAY

THE MILITIAMAN

A LITERARY METHOD

A WELCOME

A SERENADE

THE WISE AND GOOD

THE LOST COLONEL

FOR TAT

A DILEMMA

METEMPSYCHOSIS

THE SAINT AND THE MONK

THE OPPOSING SEX

A WHIPPER-IN

JUDGMENT

THE FALL OF MISS LARKIN

IN HIGH LIFE

A BUBBLE

A RENDEZVOUS

FRANCINE

AN EXAMPLE

REVENGE

THE GENESIS OF EMBARRASSMENT

IN CONTUMACIAM

RE-EDIFIED

A BULLETIN

FROM THE MINUTES

WOMAN IN POLITICS

TO AN ASPIRANT

A BALLAD OF PIKEVILLE

A BUILDER

AN AUGURY

LUSUS POLITICUS

BEREAVEMENT

AN INSCRIPTION

A PICKBRAIN

CONVALESCENT

THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR

DETECTED

BIMETALISM

THE RICH TESTATOR

TWO METHODS

FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATE

IN IMPOSTER

UNEXPOUNDED

FRANCE

THE EASTERN QUESTION

A GUEST

A FALSE PROPHECY

TWO TYPES

SOME ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS

A HYMN OF THE MANY

ONE MORNING

AN ERROR

AT THE "NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT"

THE KING OF BORES

HISTORY

THE HERMIT

TO A CRITIC OF TENNYSON

THE YEARLY LIE

CO-OPERATION

AN APOLOGUE

DIAGNOSIS

FALLEN

DIES IRAE

THE DAY OF WRATH

ONE MOOD'S EXPRESSION

SOMETHING IN THE PAPERS

IN THE BINNACLE

HUMILITY

ONE PRESIDENT

THE BRIDE

STRAINED RELATIONS

THE MAN BORN BLIND

A NIGHTMARE

A WET SEASON

THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS

HAEC FARULA DOCET

EXONERATION

AZRAEL

AGAIN

HOMO PODUNKENSIS

A SOCIAL CALL

SHAPES OF CLAY

THE PASSING SHOW.

I.

  I know not if it was a dream. I viewed
  A city where the restless multitude,
    Between the eastern and the western deep
  Had roared gigantic fabrics, strong and rude.

  Colossal palaces crowned every height;
  Towers from valleys climbed into the light;
    O'er dwellings at their feet, great golden domes
  Hung in the blue, barbarically bright.

  But now, new-glimmering to-east, the day
  Touched the black masses with a grace of gray,
    Dim spires of temples to the nation's God
  Studding high spaces of the wide survey.

  Well did the roofs their solemn secret keep
  Of life and death stayed by the truce of sleep,
    Yet whispered of an hour-when sleepers wake,
  The fool to hope afresh, the wise to weep.

  The gardens greened upon the builded hills
  Above the tethered thunders of the mills
    With sleeping wheels unstirred to service yet
+ By the tamed torrents and the quickened rills.

  A hewn acclivity, reprieved a space,
  Looked on the builder's blocks about his base
    And bared his wounded breast in sign to say:
  "Strike! 't is my destiny to lodge your race.

  "'T was but a breath ago the mammoth browsed
  Upon my slopes, and in my caves I housed
    Your shaggy fathers in their nakedness,
  While on their foeman's offal they caroused."

  Ships from afar afforested the bay.
  Within their huge and chambered bodies lay
    The wealth of continents; and merrily sailed
  The hardy argosies to far Cathay.

  Beside the city of the living spread—
  Strange fellowship!—the city of the dead;
    And much I wondered what its humble folk,
  To see how bravely they were housed, had said.

  Noting how firm their