of the Southern nature and character is thus richly portrayed: --

"But the type
Whereby we shall be known in every land
Is that vast gulf which lips our Southern strand,
And through the cold, untempered ocean pours
Its genial streams, that far off Arctic shores
May sometimes catch upon the softened breeze
Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas."

"The Cotton Boll", in "the snow of Southern summers", is a forerunner of
Lanier's "Corn". It reveals the mystic spell and kingly power of that
far-stretching tropic snow, and contains that glowing painting of Carolina
from sea to mountain, which closes

"No fairer land hath fired a poet's lays,
Or given a home to man!"

"Too Long, O Spirit of Storm", is the fused passion of the poet's heart
appalled at the moral death of stagnation. It has all the intensity
and subtlety of Shelley.

In "The Lily Confidante", delicate and fanciful as it is,
the reply of the Lily "is a simple yet sacred melody",
hallowing the purity of passion.

"The Arctic Voyager" suggests Tennyson's "Ulysses" in its high faith,
lofty purpose, and sustained power.

"Spring" is the burst of the Southern spring, in its flooding life