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                        _Among the Trees Again_

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[Illustration:

                         Among the Trees Again
                            By Evaleen Stein

                       The Bowen-Merrill Company
                              Indianapolis

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                             COPYRIGHT 1902
                       THE BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY
                                OCTOBER




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                  _To the memory of my beloved brother
                           Orth Harper Stein_

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                               _CONTENTS_


                                                     PAGE
               AMONG THE TREES AGAIN                    3

               APRIL CONTRADICTIONS                    21

               APRIL MORNING                            8

               AS TO THE SUMMER AIR THE ROSE           34

               AT NIGHT                                50

               BETWEEN SEASONS                         40

               BINDWEED                                46

               BY THE KANKAKEE                         64

               CACTUS LAND, THE                        67

               CASCADE RAVINE, THE                     71

               DREAM ECHOES                            20

               EARLY NOVEMBER                          79

               FISHER FOLK, THE                        66

               FOREBODING                              74

               GOLDEN WEDDING, THE                     78

               HOME FIELDS, THE                        52

               IDEALS                                  30

               IMPATIENT                               58

               IN LATE SEPTEMBER                       75

               IN SUMMER DEEPS                         54

               IN THE MISSION GARDEN, SAN GABRIEL      16

               IN THE MOONLIGHT                        45

               JANUARY THAW                            84

               JUNE                                    42

               LAST SURVIVOR FROM THE LIFE BOAT, THE   69

               LITTLE LOVE SONG, A                     41

               LITTLE SISTER, THE                      88

               MONTEZUMA                               38

               MORNING ON THE MOUNTAINS                85

               MY LITTLE MASTER                        12

               NORTHMEN’S SONG OF THE POLE, THE        14

               ON HEARING THE BALLAD “ALLEN PERCY”     11

               ON THE PRAIRIE                          62

               OVER THE SIERRA                         61

               PERFECT FRIENDSHIP, THE                 83

               PLEA, A                                 22

               RAIN ON THE RIVER                       59

               REDBIRD, THE                             6

               SEA-DREAMS                              28

               SEA-GARDENS OF SANTA CATALINA, THE      89

               SONG                                    55

               SONG OF THOUGHT, A                      44

               SUMMER SHOWER, THE                      49

               SUNNY NOON                              77

               SYMPATHY                                53

               TO THE “WINGED VICTORY OF SAMOTHRACE”   31

               THRUSH, THE                             36

               WHEREFORE WINGS?                        81

               WINTRY TINTS                            82

               WISHING-SPRING, THE                      7

               WOOD FANCY, A                           35




                        _Among the Trees Again_




                _I saw a meadow-land, one day;
                  The grass stood green and high,
                But naught appealed in any way
                  To stay the passer-by._

                _Till suddenly the sunlight strayed
                  Those leafy tangles through,
                And touched to fire, on every blade
                  A golden network grew!_

                _A million airy cobwebs gleamed
                  So silken-soft and bright,
                That all the level lowland seemed
                  A tracery of light._

                _And as I watched the webs, I thought
                  The field of life along,
                As slight as these, so I have wrought
                  With slender threads of song._

                _They bind the grass, and blossoms, too,
                  The bee and butterfly,
                And some go faintly wavering through
                  The tender azure sky._

                _Yet still I wait that golden glow
                  Whose fine transmuting art
                Must smite my web of song, and so
                  Reveal it to the heart._

                _Ah therefore, thou, I pray thee, touch
                  These frail threads I have spun,
                With grace of sympathy, for such
                  Might light them like the sun!_




                        _AMONG THE TREES AGAIN_


        Aye, throb, my heart! is it not sweet to be,
          To breathe, to