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	870 Finding is the first Act				391
	875 I stepped from Plank to Plank			392
	883 The Poets light but Lamps				392
	884 An Everywhere of Silver				392
	914 I cannot be ashamed					392
	963 A nearness to Tremendousness			393
	994 Partake as doth the Bee				393
	997 Crllmbling is not an instant's Act			393
	1036 Satisfaction-is the Agent				394
	1072 Title divine-is mine!				394
	1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant		394
	1196 To make routine a stimulus				395
	1212 A word is dead					395
	1218 Let my first Knowing be of thee			395
	1226 The Popular Heart is a Cannon first		395
	1333 A little Madness in the Spring			396
	1463 A Route of Evanescence				396
	1624 Apparently with no surprise			396
	1651 A Word made Flesh is seldom			396
	I732 My life closed twice before its close		397
	1755 To make a prairie					397
	1760 Elysium is as far as to				397
	1765 That Love is all there is				398

CELIA THAXTER
	Imprisoned						398
	Alone							399

MARK TWAIN [SAMUEL CLEMENS]
	Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots				399

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
	Fredericksburg						400
	Identity						401
	Memory							401

CHARLOTTE L.F. GRIMKE
	Wordsworth						401

ADAH ISAACS MENKEN
	Infelix							402

SIDNEY LANIER
	The Crystal						403
	Marsh Song-at Sunset					405
	from Sunrise						406
	The Raven Days						407