CONTENTS
I FORT DEARBORN
II CAPTAIN JOHN WHISTLER
III EMILY BROSSEAU: IN CHURCH
IV THE OUIJA BOARD
V HANGING THE PICTURE
VI THE LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES
VII AUTOCHTHON
VIII GRANT AND LOGAN AND OUR TEARS
THE MUNICIPAL PIER
GOBINEAU TO TREE
OLD PIERY
THE TYPICAL AMERICAN?
COME, REPUBLIC
PAST AND PRESENT
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
AT HAVANA
THE MOURNER'S BENCH
THE BAY-WINDOW
MAN OF OUR STREET
ACHILLES DEATHERIDGE
SLIP SHOE LOVEY
THE ARCHANGELS
SONG OF CHANGE
MEMORABILIA
TO A SPIROCHAETA
CATO BRADEN
WINSTON PRAIRIE
WILL BOYDEN LECTURES
THE DESPLAINES FOREST
THE GARDEN
THE TAVERN ( For my daughter Madeline )
O SAEPE MECUM ( For E. J. S. )
MALACHY DEGAN
MY DOG PONTO
THE GOSPEL OF MARK
MARSYAS
WORLDS BACK OF WORLDS
THE PRINCESS' SONG
THE FURIES I But you must act. And therein lies the way Of
APOLLO AT PHERAE
STEAM SHOVEL CUT
THE HOUSES
THE CHURCH AND THE HOTEL
SUSIE
HAVING HIS WAY
THE ASP
THE FAMILY
THE SUBWAY
THE RADICAL'S MESSAGE
BOMBYX
THE APOLOGY OF DEMETRIUS
A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS Act One There was slight rain that
THEODORE DREISER
JOHN COWPER POWYS
NEW YEAR'S DAY
PLAYING BLIND
I SHALL NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN
ELIZABETH TO MONSIEUR D
MONSIEUR D TO THE PSYCHOANALYST
THE LAST CONFESSION
IN THE LOGGIA
BE WITH ME THROUGH THE SPRING
DESOLATE SCYTHIA ?????? ??? ?? ???????? ?????? ????? Aes .
THE SEARCH
THE GREAT VALLEY
colophon
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THE GREAT VALLEY
By
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
AUTHOR OF “SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY”,
“SONGS AND SATIRES,” ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.
Reprinted November, 1916.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
TO THE MEMORY
OF
SQUIRE DAVIS and LUCINDA MASTERS
WHO, CLOSE TO NATURE, ONE IN DEEP RELIGIOUS FAITH, THE OTHER
IN PANTHEISTIC RAPTURE AND HEROISM, LIVED NEARLY A
HUNDRED YEARS IN THIS LAND OF ILLINOIS
I INSCRIBE
THE GREAT VALLEY
IN ADMIRATION OF THEIR GREAT STRENGTH, MASTERY
OF LIFE, HOPEFULNESS, CLEAR AND
BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY
Edgar Lee Masters
