Eight Hours 65
Sleeping Beauty 68
Easter Morning 71
A Legend of St. Valentine 75
Frost-Bitten 79
A Song 81
Old Photographs 83
"_Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné_" 85
Christmas Greens 88
Lake Mahopac--Saturday Night 91
Matinal Musings 95
A Romance of the Sawdust 99
Pyrotechnic Polyglot 105
Fishing 108
_Nocturne_ 111
_Auto-da-Fé_ 113
An Afterthought 117
_Reductio ad Absurdum_ 120
The Mothers of the Sirens 122
_Per Aspera ad Astra_ 124
The Language of Love 126



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