Chapter IX

of _The Promised Land_)

WARBLE FOR LILAC-TIME _Walt Whitman_

WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN'D ASTRONOMER _Walt Whitman_

VIGIL STRANGE I KEPT ON THE FIELD ONE NIGHT _Walt Whitman_

ODYSSEUS IN PHAEACIA _Translated by George Herbert Palmer_

ODYSSEUS _George Cabot Lodge_

A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE _William Dean Howells_ (In _Suburban Sketches_)

THE WILD RIDE _Louise Imogen Guiney_

CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS _Dallas Lore Sharp_ (In _The Lay of the Land_)

GLOUCESTER MOORS _William Vaughn Moody_

ROAD-HYMN FOR THE START _William Vaughn Moody_

ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILLIPINES _William Vaughn Moody_

THE COON DOG _Sarah Orne Jewett_ (In _The Queen's Twin, and Other Stories_)

ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Richard Watson Gilder_

A FIRE AMONG THE GIANTS _John Muir_ (From _Our National Parks_)

WAITING _John Burroughs_

THE PONT DU GARD _Henry James_ (