The Bashful Earthquake, & Other Fables and Verses

CONTENTS.

	Page
The Bashful Earthquake	1
The Lovesick Scarecrow	7
The Music of the Future	9
Song	11
The Doorless Wolf	12
The Bold Bad Butterfly	15
Crumbs	20
Japanesque	21
The Difference	22
Why ye Blossome Cometh before ye Leafe	23
The First First of April	24
The Epigrammatist	26
The Silver Lining	28
The Boastful Butterfly	31
The Three Wishes	35
Truth	37
The Tragic Mice	38
Absence of Mind	40
The Graduate	41
The Poet’s Proposal	44
A Three-sided Question	45
The Snail’s Dream	51
A Christmas Legend	52
Hyde and Seeke	54
In the CafÉ	55
The Legend of the Lily	58
The Untutored Giraffe	60
The Enchanted Wood	64
A Bunny Romance	68
The Flower Circus	72
The Fatuous Flower	77
A Love Story	80
Ye Knyghte-Mare	83
Metaphysics	84
The Princess that was n’t	86
The Lion’s Tour	89
The Fugitive Thought	93
The Cussed Damozel	97
A Gas-log Reverie	101
Cupid’s Fault	103
All Aboard	104
Killing Time	105
The Mermaid Club	107
A Song	109
Angel’s Toys	110
The Reformed Tigress	112
Two Ladies	115
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