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    Shapes and Shadows
    Shapes and Shadows
    Shapes and Shadows
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    Shapes and Shadows

    By Madison Julius Cawein

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Shapes and Shadows" by Madison Julius Cawein. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 4, 2022
    ISBN8596547235712
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      Book preview

      Shapes and Shadows - Madison Julius Cawein

      Madison Julius Cawein

      Shapes and Shadows

      EAN 8596547235712

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      August.

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      The Higher Brotherhood.

      Gramarye.

      Dreams.

      The Old House.

      The Rock.

      Rain.

      Standing-Stone Creek.

      The Moonmen.

      The Old Man Dreams.

      Since Then.

      Comrades.

      Waiting.

      Contrasts.

      In June .

      After long Grief and Pain.

      Can I Forget?

      The House of Fear.

      At Dawn.

      Storm.

      Memories.

      Which?

      Sunset in Autumn .

      The Legend of the Stone.

      Time and Death and Love.

      Passion.

      When the Wine-Cup at the Lip.

      Art.

      [ A Phantasy. ]

      A Song for Old Age.

      Tristram And Isolt.

      The Better Lot.

      Dusk in the Woods.

      At the Ferry.

      Her Violin.

      I

      II

      III

      Her Vesper Song.

      At Parting.

      Carissima Mea.

      Margery.

      I

      II

      III

      Constance.

      Gertrude.

      Lydia.

      A Southern Girl.

      A Daughter of the States.

      An Autumn Night .

      Lines.

      The Blind God.

      A Valentine.

      A Catch.

      The New Year.

      Then and Now.

      Epilogue.

      August.

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      I

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      Clad on with glowing beauty and the peace,

      Benign, of calm maturity, she stands

      Among her meadows and her orchard-lands,

      And on her mellowing gardens and her trees,

      Out of the ripe abundance of her hands,

      Bestows increase

      And fruitfulness, as, wrapped in sunny ease,

      Blue-eyed and blonde she goes,

      Upon her bosom Summer's richest rose.

      II

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      And he who follows where her footsteps lead,

      By hill and rock, by forest-side and stream,

      Shall glimpse the glory of her visible dream,

      In flower and fruit, in rounded nut and seed:

      She in whose path the very shadows gleam;

      Whose humblest weed

      Seems lovelier than June's loveliest flower, indeed,

      And sweeter to the smell

      Than April's self within a rainy dell.

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      Hers is a sumptuous simplicity

      Within the fair Republic of her flowers,

      Where you may see her standing hours on hours,

      Breast-deep in gold, soft-holding up a bee

      To her hushed ear; or sitting under bowers

      Of greenery,

      A butterfly a-tilt upon her knee;

      Or, lounging on her hip,

      Dancing a cricket on her finger-tip.

      IV

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      Aye, let me breathe hot scents that tell of you:

      The hoary catnip and the meadow-mint,

      On which the honour of your touch doth print

      Itself as odour. Let me drink the hue

      Of ironweed and mist-flow'r here that hint,

      With purple and blue,

      The rapture

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