printed before. They are for the most part journals in verse covering
the period of his school-teaching, study for the ministry and exercise
of that office, his sickness, bereavement, travel abroad and return to
the new life. This sad period of probation is illuminated by the
episode of his first love. Not for their poetical merit, except in
flashes, but for the light they throw on the growth of his thought and
character are they included.

In this volume the course of the Muse, as Emerson tells it, is pursued
with regard to his own poems.

I hang my verses in the wind,
Time and tide their faults will find.

EDWARD W. EMERSON.

March 12, 1904.

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CONTENTS


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH


POEMS