The Younger American Poets

chapter is prefaced by a keynote of verse, such as that which conducts

one to the haunt of the trillium, where

These nun-like flowers with spotless urns, That shine with such a snowy gloss, Will seem, amid the suppliant ferns, To bow above the cloistral moss.

Then Hope, her starry eyes upraised, Will suddenly surprise you there, And you will feel that you have gazed On t...