In the fir-tree overlooking the marshes, The swinging beauty of equilibrium,!

for the abomination of our past righteousness. I shall be cleared, distinct, single as if burnished

THESE poems should not be considered separately, as so many single pieces. They are intended as an essential story, or history, or confession, unfolding one from the other in organic development, the whole revealing the intrinsic experience of a man during the crisis of manhood, when he marries and comes into himself. The period covered is, roughly, the sixth lustre of a man's life It is in pure, unutterable resolvedness, distinction Is that it, woman? Does it strike you so?