A.C. KING

Mountain Idylls
and Other Poems

BY

ALFRED CASTNER KING

TO THE MANY FRIENDS WHO HAVE SO
KINDLY ASSISTED IN THE ARRANGEMENT
OF THE MANUSCRIPTS FOR
PUBLICATION, AFTER THE SHADOWS
OF HOPELESS BLINDNESS DESCENDED
UPON ME FOREVER, THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

Table of Contents.

Preface
Grandeur
Nature's Child
To the Pines
Reflections
Life's Mystery
The Fallen Tree
There is an Air of Majesty
Think Not That the Heart Is Devoid of Emotion
Humanity's Stream
Nature's Lullaby
The Spirit of freedom is Born of the Mountains
The Valley of the San Miguel
To Mother Huberta
Suggested by a Mountain Eagle
The Silvery San Juan
As the Shifting Sands of the Desert
Missed
If I Have Lived Before
The Darker Side
The Miner
Life's Undercurrent
They Cannot See the Wreaths We Place
Mother—Alpha and Omega
Empty are the Mother's Arms
In Deo Fides
Shall Love, as the Bridal Wreath, Whither and Die?
Shall Our Memories Live When the Sod Rolls Above Us?
A Reverie
Love's Plea
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Despair
Hidden Sorrows
O, a Beautiful Thing Is the Flower That Fadeth!
Smiles
A Request