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CONTENTS 



A Chanted Calendar . 



Spring Songs .... 



A Welcome to Spring . 



Home-Thoughts from Abroad . 



Seed-Time Hymn 



Spring Has Come 



Nature's Endless Bloom 



The Garden .... 



Spring in Carolina 



" Because the Rose Must Fade " 



The Time of the Roses 



Early Summer in New Orleans . 



Summer-Sweet .... 



Life Amid the Grass . 



An Evening in My Garden . 



Midsummer Pomps 



A Song 



August Weather .... 

 Gillyflowers .... 

 In the Garden .... 

 The Last Rose of Summer . 



To Autumn 



The Golden Flower . 



Song 



Carnations in Winter . 



Sonnet 



A Winter Garden 



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Sydney Dobell . .112 



Nachum (Hebrew) . 113 



Nizami (Persian) . 11G 



Robert Browning . 118 



JohnKeUe . .118 



0. W. Holmes . .119 



James Thomson . . 121 



A, B. Street . .123 



Henry Timrod . .125 



R. W. Gilder . . 126 



/. C. Mangan . . 128 



G. W. Cable . . 131 



K. Tynan Hinkson . 133 



Charles Kingsley . 133 



Author Unknmon . 134 



Mattheio Arnold . 135 



Conrad Wetzel . . 136 



K. Tynan Hinkson . 137 

 William Shakespeare . 138 



W. W. Story . .139 



Thomas Moore . .141 



William Blake . . 142 



0. W. Holmes . . 143 



Alfred Tennyson . 144 



Bliss Carman . , 145 

 William Shakespeare . 146 



Joseph Addison . . 146 



IV 



THE SINGING OF BIRDS 



A Hymn of Praise . . . Sa'di (Persian) . 



" Overhead the Tree-tops Meet " Robert Brovming 



A Bird's Song . . . . K. Tynan Hinkson 



The Carol of a Bird . , . Lord Byron 



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