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    THE POEMS OF [Illustration]
    MADISON CAWEIN

    VOLUME IV

    POEMS OF MYSTERY AND OF
    MYTH AND ROMANCE

[Illustration]

[Illustration:

    Around him mermaids sing, foam-clad     Page 168

    _The Sea King_
]




    THE POEMS OF
    MADISON CAWEIN

    _Volume IV_

    POEMS OF MYSTERY
    AND OF MYTH AND
    ROMANCE


    _Illustrated_
    WITH PHOTOGRAVURES AFTER PAINTINGS
    BY ERIC PAPE


    INDIANAPOLIS
    THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
    PUBLISHERS




    COPYRIGHT 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1896,
    1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1905 AND 1907, BY
    MADISON CAWEIN

    COPYRIGHT 1896, BY COPELAND AND DAY; 1898, BY
    R. H. RUSSELL


    PRESS OF
    BRAUNWORTH & CO.
    BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
    BROOKLYN, N. Y.




TO MY MOTHER




CONTENTS


    POEMS OF MYSTERY                          PAGE

    ASHLY MERE                                  92

    AT DAWN                                     84

    AT MIDNIGHT                                118

    BEFORE THE TOMB                             40

    CHANGELING, THE                            140

    CHILDREN O' THE MOON                       177

    CITY OF DARKNESS, THE                      110

    DANCE OF THE FAIRIES, THE                  136

    ELF-QUEEN, THE                             142

    ELF SWASHBUCKLER, AN                       147

    ELIXIR OF LOVE, THE                          9

    EPILOGUE                                   218

    FAERY MORRIS                               163

    FLAMENCINE                                  42

    FOREST OF DREAMS, THE                      108

    GHOSTS                                     116

    GLADIOLES, THE                             158

    GLAMOUR                                    161

    GLORAMONE                                   14

    GRAMARYE                                   122

    HALL OF DARKNESS, THE                      209

    HAUNTED                                      1

    HAUNTED ROOM, THE                          202

    HEADLESS HORSEMAN, THE                      94

    HILDEGARD                                   44

    IMAGE IN THE GLASS, THE                     22

    IN AN OLD GARDEN                           200

    IN SHADOW                                   87

    IN THE OWL-LIGHT                            89

    INTIMATIONS                                187

    KU KLUX                                     82

    LEGEND OF THE STONE, THE                    25

    LITTLE PEOPLE, THE                         165

    MERMAID, THE                               173

    MIRROR, THE                                206

    MORNING-GLORIES, THE                       156

    MOTIVE IN GOLD AND GRAY, A                 180

    NEREID, THE                                171

    NIXIES, THE                                152

    OLD HOUSE, THE                             106

    OLD HOUSE BY THE MERE, THE                 197

    ON FLOYD'S FORK                             33

    ON MIDSUMMER NIGHT                         132

    ON THE EVE OF ST. JOHN                     149

    PRÆTERITA                                   85

    REED SHAKEN WITH