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                    [Illustration: MADISON CAWEIN]


             Under the Stars and Stripes.


    High on the world did our fathers of old,
        Under the stars and stripes,
    Blazon the name that we now must uphold,
        Under the stars and stripes.
    Vast in the past they have builded an arch
    Over which Freedom has lighted her torch.
    Follow it! Follow it! Come, let us march
        Under the stars and stripes!

    We in whose bodies the blood of them runs,
        Under the stars and stripes,
    We will acquit us as sons of their sons,
        Under the stars and stripes.
    Ever for justice, our heel upon wrong,
    We in the light of our vengeance thrice strong!
    Rally together! Come tramping along
        Under the stars and stripes!

    Out of our strength and a nation's great need,
        Under the stars and stripes,
    Heroes again as of old we shall breed,
        Under the stars and stripes.
    Broad to the winds be our banner unfurled!
    Straight in Spain's face let defiance be hurled!
    God on our side, we will battle the world
        Under the stars and stripes!

                                  MADISON CAWEIN.

                From "_Poems of American Patriotism_,"
                       selected by _R. L. Paget_.

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                                SHAPES

                                 and

                               SHADOWS


                      POEMS by _Madison Cawein_




                      NEW YORK: _R. H. Russell_

                             MDCCCXCVIII


                 _Copyright, 1898, by R. H. Russell_

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To

HARRISON S. MORRIS

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A Table of Contents


_The Evanescent Beautiful_         1

_August_                           2

_The Higher Brotherhood_           4

_Gramarye_                         5

_Dreams_                           7

_The Old House_                    8

_The Rock_                        10

_Rain_                            12

_Standing-Stone Creek_            13

_The Moonmen_                     15

_The Old Man Dreams_              19

_Since Then_                      20

_Comrades_                        21

_Waiting_                         23

_Contrasts_                       24

_In June_                         25

_After long Grief and Pain_       26

_Can I forget?_                   27

_The House of Fear_               28

_At Dawn_                         29

_Storm_                           30

_Memories_                        31

_Which_                           32

_Sunset in Autumn_                34

_The Legend of the Stone_         36

_Time and Death and Love_         40

_Passion_                         41

_When the Wine-Cup at the Lip_    42

_Art_                             43

_A Song for Old Age_              45

_Tristram and Isolt_              46

_The Better Lot_                  47

_Dusk in the Woods_               48

_At the Ferry_                    50

_Her Violin_                      52

_Her Vesper Song_                 54

_At Parting_                      55

_Carissima Mea_                   56

_Margery_                         59

_Constance_                       61

_Gertrude_                        63

_Lydia_                           64

_A Southern Girl_                 65

_A Daughter of the States_        66

_An Autumn Night_                 67

_Lines_                           68

_The Blind God_                   69

_A Valentine_                     70

_A Catch_                         71

_The New Year_                    73

_Then and Now_                    75

_Epilogue_                        76

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The Dedication


    _Ah, not for us the Heavens that hold_
    GOD'S _message of Promethean fire!
    The Flame that fell on bards of old
    To hallow and inspire._

    _Yet let the Soul dream on and dare
    No less_ SONG'S _height that these possess:
    We can but fail; and may prepare
    The way to some success._

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Shapes & Shadows

_By Madison Cawein_

THE EVANESCENT BEAUTIFUL.


    Day after Day, young with eternal beauty,
    Pays flowery duty to the month and clime;
    Night after night erects a vasty portal
    Of stars immortal for the march of Time.

    But where are now the Glory and the Rapture,
    That once did capture me in cloud and stream?
    Where now the Joy that was both speech and silence?
    Where the beguilance that was fact and dream?

    I know that Earth and Heaven are as golden
    As they of olden made me feel and see;
    Not in themselves is lacking aught of power
    Through star and flower--something's lost in me.

    _Return! Return!_ I cry, _O Visions vanished,
    O Voices banished, to my Soul again!_--
    The near Earth blossoms and the far Skies glisten,
    I look and listen, but, alas! in vain.




_August._


I

    Clad on with glowing beauty and the peace,
      Benign, of calm maturity, she stands
      Among her