The Book of the Native

CONTENTS

I. THE BOOK OF THE NATIVE	Page

Kinship	11
Origins	16
An April Adoration	19
An Oblation	21
Resurrection	25
Afoot	27
Where the Cattle come to Drink	31
The Heal-All	32
Recompense	35
An Epitaph for a Husbandman	37
The Little Field of Peace	40
Renewal	43
The Unsleeping	45
Recessional	48
Earth’s Complines	52
Two Spheres	55
The Stillness of the Frost	58
A Child’s Prayer at Evening	59

II. LYRICS

The Frosted Pane	63
The Brook in February	64
Beside the Winter Sea	65
The Quest of the Arbutus	67
The Jonquil	70
The Trout Brook	72
A Wake-up Song	75
Butterflies	77
July	78
An August Wood Road	81
Apple Song	84
The Cricket	87
The Train among the Hills	89
The Lone Wharf	90
The Witches’ Flight	92
Three Good Things	95
Trysting Song	98
Love’s Translator	100
Ebb	103
Twilight on Sixth Avenue	105
Mothers	107
Up and Away in the Morning	108
Home, Home in the Evening	110
Sleepy Man	112

III. BALLADS

The Wrestler	117
The Ballad of Crossing the Brook	120
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