The open sea

Edgar Lee Masters

PART ONE THE OPEN SEA BRUTUS BRUTUS AND ANTONY ( Lucilius Talks

PART II THE DECISION ( April 14th, 1861 .)

PART III LINCOLN MAKES A MEMORANDUM

THE OPEN SEA

EDGAR LEE MASTERS

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THE OPEN SEA

By
EDGAR LEE MASTERS

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921

All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Copyright, 1921,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1921.

Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

PART I
	PAGE
Brutus	3
Brutus and Antony	3
At the Mermaid Tavern	17
Charlotte Corday	31
A Man Child is Born	49
Richard Booth to His Son, Junius Booth	52
A Man Child is Born	57
Squire Bowling Green	58
Lincoln Speaking in Congress	63
John Wilkes Booth at the Farm	64
Junius Brutus Booth	66
A Certain Poet on the Debates	71
PART II
The Decision	81
PART III
Lincoln Makes a Memorandum	117
Winter Garden Theatre	118
The Sparrow Hawk in the Rain	120
Adelaide and John Wilkes Booth	134
Brutus Lives Again in Booth	140
Booth’s Philippi	151
The Burial of Boston Corbett{vi}	160
The New Apocrypha	163
Business Reverses	163
The Fig Tree	166
Tribute Money	169
The Great Merger	171
At Decapolis	174
The Single Standard	178
First Entrants	183
John in Prison	186
Ananias and Sapphira	190
The Two Malefactors	193
Berenice	202
Nebuchadnezzar or Eating Grass	212
Hip Lung on Yuan Chang	220
Ulysses	225
The Party	232
Celsus at Hadrian’s Villa	238
Invoation to the Gods	248
Pentheus in These States	253
Comparative Criminals	262
The Great Race Passes	270
Demos the Despot	272
A Republic	275
The Inn	277
Monody on the Death of William Marion Reedy	285
God and My Country	290
The Dunes of Indiana	295
Nature	299

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