application to higher matters.

It is not an artificially graded path strewn with roses that
invites us in this part, but, let me hope, something better, a
rugged trail through the woods or along the beach where we shall
now and then get a whiff of natural air, or a glimpse of something
to

"Make the wild blood start
In its mystic springs."

ESOPUS-ON-HUDSON, March, 1877.



CONTENTS
I. BIRDS AND POETS
II. TOUCHES OF NATURE
III. A BIRD MEDLEY
IV. APRIL
V. SPRING POEMS
VI. OUR RURAL DIVINITY
VII. BEFORE GENIUS
VIII. BEFORE BEAUTY
IX. EMERSON
X. THE FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE
INDEX