CONTENTS.

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Preface

11

This Book

15

songs of the army of the night.

Proem:—“Outside London”

18

part i.—england.

In the Camp

19

“Axiom”

20

Drill

20

Evening Hymn in the Hovels

21

In the Street: “Lord Shaftesbury”

22

“Liberty”

22

In the Edgware Road

24

To the Girls of the Unions

24

Hagar

25

“Why?”

26

A Visitor in the Camp

27

“Lord Leitrim”

28

“Anarchism”

28

Belgravia by Night: “Move on!”

29

Jesus

29

Parallels for the Pious

30

“Prayer”

30

To the Christians

31

“Defeat”

31

To John Ruskin

32

To the Emperor William

34

Song of the Dispossessed: “To Jesus”

34

Art

35

The Peasants’ Revolt

35

“Analogy”

37

In Trafalgar Square

37

A Street Fight

37

To a Workman, a would-be Suicide

39

Dublin at Dawn

40

The Caged Eagle

41

To Ireland

42

To Charles Parnell

42

An “Assassin”

43

Russia

44

PÈre-la-Chaise

45

Aux Ternes

46

“The Truth”

47

To the Sons of Labour

48

To the Artists

49

“One among so Many”

50

The New Locksley Hall

52

Farewell to the Market: “Susannah and Mary-Jane”

58

part ii.—here and there.

In the Pit: “Chant of the Firemen”

60

A Mahommadan Ship Fireman

61

To India

61

To England:

I. “There was a time”

61

II. “We hate you”

62

III. “I whom you fed with shame”

62

IV. “England, the Land I loved”

63

Hong Kong Lyrics:

I. “At Anchor in that Harbour”

64

II. “There is much in this Sea-way City”

65

III. “I stand and watch the Soldiers”

65

IV. “Happy Valley”

66

A Glimpse of China:

I. In a Sampan

67

II. In a Chair

67

III. “Caste”

68

IV. Over the Samovar

69

To Japan

70

Dai Butsu

70

“England”

71

The Fisherman

71

A South-Sea Islander

72

New Summer Converts

72

A Death at Sea:

I. “Dead in the Sheep-Pen”

73

II. “In the Warm, Cloudy Night”

74

III. “Dirge”

74

part iii.—australia.

The Outcasts

75

James Moorhouse

75

In the Sea Gardens: “The Man of the Nation”

78

“Upstarts”

79

Labour—Capital—Land

79

Australia

80

Art

80

“Henry George”

81

William Wallace

83

The Australian Flag

83

To an Old Friend in England: “Esau”

84

At the Seamen’s Union: “The Seamen and the Miners”

84

To His Love

85

Her Poem: “My Baby Girl that was born and died on the same day”

86

To Henry George in America

86

“Algernon Charles Swinburne”

87

To an Unionist

88

To my Friend, Sydney Jephcott

89

To E. L. Zox

89

“Father Abe”: Song of the American Sons of Labour

90

“A Fool”

93

Mount Rennie:

I. The Australian Press speaks

95

II. The Time-Spirit speaks

97

“Tyranny”: The Delegates speak

97

From a Verandah: “Armageddon”

98

“Elsie”—A Memory

99

“Nationalism and M’Ilwraith”

99

To the Emperor William

100

A Story

101

At the India Docks

103

Dirge: “A Little Soldier of the Army of the Night”

108

To Queen Victoria in England

109

Farewell to the Children

111

Epode: On the Ranges, Queensland

113

Australian Press Notices

116

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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