Fifty Years, & Other Poems

For permission to reprint certain poems in this book thanks are due to the editors and proprietors of the _Century Magazine_, the _Independent_, _The Crisis_, _The New York Time...

Oh! she has seen your strong young limbs, And heard your laughter loud and gay, And in your voices she has caught The echo of a far-off day, When man was closer to the earth; An...

I brood not over the broken past, Nor dread whatever time may bring; No nights are dark, no days are long, While in my heart there swells a song, And I can sing.

_If homely virtues draw from me a tune In happy jingle or a half-sad croon; Or if the smoldering future should inspire My hand to strike the seer's prophetic lyre; Or if injusti...