Longfellow's _Herons of Elmwood_; Whittier's _A Welcome to Lowell_;
Holmes's _Farewell to Lowell, At a Birthday Festival_, and _To James
Russell Lowell_; Aldrich's _Elmwood_; Margaret J. Preston's
_Home-Welcome to Lowell_; Richard Watson Gilder's _Lowell_;
Christopher P. Cranch's _To J.R.L. on His Fiftieth Birthday_, and _To
J.R.L. on His Homeward Voyage_; James Kenneth Stephen's _In Memoriam;
James Russell Lowell_, "Lapsus Calami and Other Verses"; William W.
Story's _To James Russell Lowell_, Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 150;
Eugene Field's _James Russell Lowell_; Edith Thomas's _On Reading
Lowell's "Heartsease and Rue."_




THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

AND OTHER POEMS


THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

PRELUDE TO PART FIRST


Over his keys the musing organist,
Beginning doubtfully and far away,
First lets his fingers wander as they list,
And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay:
Then, as the touch of his loved instrument 5
Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme,