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BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
124 TREMONT STREET.
1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
UNIVERSITY PRESS : Welch, BIGELOW, & Co.,
CAMBRIDGE.
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Abyssinia and King Theodore
A most Extraordinary Case .
Aspects of Culture
Beauty of Trees
Beaumont and Fletcher, etc.
By-Ways of Europe. II., III., IV., V., VI.
Castle of Indolence, A
Characteristics of Genius
Conversation on the Stage, A
Cretan Days. III.
Destructive Democracy, The
Did he take the Prince to Ride ?
Discovery of Etherization, The.
Doctor Molke's Friends. I., II., III..
Does it Pay to Smoke?
Encyclopedists, The
European House-Sparrow, The
Flotsam and Jetsam. I., II., III.
Four Months on the Stage
Free Missouri. I., II. .
Gentleman of an Old School, A
George Silverman's Explanation. I., II., III.
Hawthorne in the Boston Custom-House.
John Chinaman, M, D..
Lagos Bar, I., II.
Mrs. Johnson.
Modern Lettre de Cachet, A
Next President, The
Old Masters in the Louvre, and Modern Art
Oldport Wharves
Old Philadelphia Library, The .
On a Pair of Spectacles .
Our Second Girl
Our Roman Catholic Prethren. I., II.
Pittsburg
Plea for the Afternoon, A
Poison of the Rattlesnake, The .
President Wayland, The Late
Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The
St. Michael's Night. I.
Sequel to an Old English State Trial, The
Spenser
Talmud, The
Tenth of January, The
Théophile Gautier
Turf and the Trotting Horse in America, The
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G. Reynolds Henry James, Fr. Ralph Waldo Emerson Wilson Flags E. P. IVhipple Bayard Taylor S. Adams Hill. F. H. Hedge Kate Field IV m. 7. Stillman
Edrward Everett Hale
Dr. I. 1. Ilayes James Parton John G. Rosengarten T. M. Brewer. Harriet Prescott Spofford.
Albert D, Richardson
7. W'. De Forrest Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne 7. }'. Palinor W. Winwood Reade 1.1. Howells L. Clarke Davis
Ergene Benson T. W. Higginson John Mcredith Read, Fr. 7. E. Babson H. B. Słowe James Parton Fames Parton . Antoinette B. Blackwell
Miss A gre's
7. Lewis Diman. Henry James, Jr. .
Harrison.
L, Clarke Davis
E. P. IL'hipple
Calvin E. Store
E. Strart Phelps
Eugene Benson
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art,
and Politics.
VOL. XXI. - JANUARY, 1868. — NO. CXXIII.
THE WIFE.
AN IDYL OF BEARCAMP WATER.
A LONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawny Incas in their gardens grew,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,
And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowers
Hang motionless upon their upright staves.
The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind,
Wing-weary with its long flight from the south,
Unfelt; yet, closely scanned, yon maple leaf
With faintest motion, as one stirs in dreams,
Confesses it. The locust by the wall
Stabs the noon-silence with his sharp alarm.
A single hay-cart down the dusty road
Creaks slowly, with its driver fast asleep
On the load's top. Against the neighboring hill,
Huddled along the stone wall's shady side,
The sheep show white, as if a snow-drift still
Defied the dog-star. Through the open door
A drowsy smell of flowers - gray heliotrope,
And white sweet-clover, and shy mignonette -
Comes faintly in, and silent chorus lends
To the pervading symphony of peace.
No time is this for hands long overworn
To task their strength; and (unto Him be praise
Who giveth quietness !) the stress and strain
Of years that did the work of centuries
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of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts
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