I.

The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun

Prefatory Note.


This poem received the nineteenth award of the prize offered
by Professor Albert Stanburrough Cook to Yale University
for the best unpublished verse, the Committee of Award consisting of
Professors C. F. Tucker Brooke, of Yale University, Robert Frost,
of Amherst College, and Charles M. Gayley, of the University of California.






I.

The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun

"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny,
mooning around as usual! He will never make his way."
Letter of George Keats, 18--



Night falls; the great jars glow against the dark,