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EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

FIRST TO HAIL AND CAUTION ME

Prefatory Note

Many of these poems have appeared in Scribner's, The Century, The Atlantic, and the San Francisco Examiner, and my thanks are due them for permission to republish.

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

EDWIN MARKHAM.

The Contents

The Man with the Hoe 15

A Look into the Gulf 19

Brotherhood 21

Song of the Followers of Pan 22

Little Brothers of the Ground 23

Wail of the Wandering Dead 25

A Prayer 28

The Poet 30

The Whirlwind Road 32

The Desire of Nations 33

The Elf Child 39

The Goblin Laugh 40

Poetry 41

A Meeting 42

Infinite Depths 43

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