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He meets, with brow uncovered, 

 The sunrise through the mist, 



\\ ith raptured eyes that range the skies 

 And seas of ameth_vst : 



The brambled rose clings to him ; 



The breezy wood receives 

 Him as the guest she loves the best 



And laughs through all her leaves : 



Pan and his nymphs and dryads 

 They hear, in breathless pause. 



This earth-born wight lilt his delight, 

 And envy him because .... 



He is the morning's poet — - 



The bard of mount and moor. 



The minstrel fine of dewy shine. 

 The dawning's troubadour. 



Stamford Salutes New Canaan. 



BY CHARLES H. CRANDALL, STAMFORD, CT. 



Bliss Carman? Certainly. To know 

 him is to know one whose head is in the 

 clouds (he is considerably over six feet), 

 so it is easy for him to see visions which 

 escape common mortals, as an ofificer 

 looks over the trenches by means of a 

 periscope. When you are a poet, and in 

 good workino- order, vou can see over 



mountain tops and around corners. It 

 is therefore no wonder that Carman can 

 extract wisdom from the turtle in Lake 

 Wampanaw or stroll over Ponus Ridge 

 and fancy himself walking in the foot- 

 steps of Socrates, and gather up a fine 

 crop of philosophy as the fruit of his 

 walk. I have chatted with our serene 

 and lofty poet in his tent in the woods 

 near New Canaan and envied him his air 

 of illimitable leisure, his calm serenity 

 and unrufiled poise. But I am out of 

 patience with the shade of my old friend, 

 E. C. Stedman, who, in making up his 

 anthologies of verse, failed to class Car- 

 man as an American, but must remind 

 us that he was born under the aegis of 

 "Our Lady of the Snows," in far- 

 away Labrador or New Brunswick or 

 Scotia, where even the wild geese cannot 

 stand the winters. Having all the sense 

 of the goose, and then some (and mind 

 you, wild geese know a lot that we do 

 not ) . ]\Ir. Carman took flight from Can- 

 adian wilds to old New York town many 

 years ago and has been tramping over 

 tlie Catskills and the New Canaan hills 



'CARMAN CAN EXTIi,\CT WISDOM FROM THE TURTLE IX LAKE WAMPANAW 



