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VI I explain the silvered passing 480
XXI A man said to the universe 480
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
O Black and Unknown Bards 481
Lift Every Voice and Sing 482
LOLA RIDGE
from The Alley 483
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Sympathy 484
We Wear the Mask 484
When All Is Done 485
The Paradox 485
The Poet 486
GUY WETMORE CARRYL
The Patrician Peacocks and the Overweening Jay 487
ROBERT FROST
Storm Fear 488
from Mountain Interval
Hyla Brook 489
from The Hill Wife
IV. The Oft-Repeated Dream 489
V. The Impulse 490
from New Hampshire
The Lockless Door 491
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things 491
Mending Wall 492
The Death of the Hired Man 493
After Apple-picking 498
The Road Not Taken 499
The Oven Bird 499
Birches 500
'Out, Out-' 501
ROBERT W. SERVICE
The Cremation of Sam McGee 502
"EDWARD E. PARAMORE, JR."
The Ballad of Yukon Jake 505
TRUMBULL STICKNEY
Mnemosyne 508
Live Blindly 509