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Preface 11
This Book 15
SONGS OF THE ARMY OF THE NIGHT.
_Proem_:--"Outside London" 18
_PART I.--ENGLAND_.
In the Camp 19
"Axiom" 20
Drill 20
Evening Hymn in the Hovels 21
In the Street: "Lord Shaftesbury" 22
"Liberty" 22
In the Edgware Road 24
To the Girls of the Unions 24
Hagar 25
"Why?" 26
A Visitor in the Camp 27
"Lord Leitrim" 28
"Anarchism" 28
Belgravia by Night: "Move on!" 29
Jesus 29
Parallels for the Pious 30
"Prayer" 30
To the Christians 31
"Defeat" 31
To John Ruskin 32
To the Emperor William 34
Song of the Dispossessed: "To Jesus" 34
Art 35
The Peasants' Revolt 35
"Analogy" 37
In Trafalgar Square 37
A Street Fight 37
To a Workman, a would-be Suicide 39
Dublin at Dawn 40
The Caged Eagle 41
To Ireland 42
To Charles Parnell 42
An "Assassin" 43
Russia 44
Pere-la-Chaise 45
Aux Ternes 46
"The Truth" 47
To the Sons of Labour 48
To the Artists 49
"One among so Many" 50
The New Locksley Hall 52
Farewell to the Market: "Susannah and Mary-Jane" 58
_PART II.--HERE AND THERE_.
In the Pit: "Chant of the Firemen" 60
A Mahommadan Ship Fireman 61
To India 61
To England:
I. "There was a time" 61
II. "We hate you" 62
III. "I whom you fed with shame" 62
IV. "England, the Land I loved" 63
Hong Kong Lyrics:
I. "At Anchor in that Harbour" 64
II. "There is much in this Sea-way City" 65
III. "I stand and watch the Soldiers" 65
IV. "Happy Valley" 66
A Glimpse of China:
I. In a Sampan 67
II. In a Chair 67
III. "Caste" 68
IV. Over the Samovar 69
To Japan 70
Dai Butsu 70
"England" 71
The Fisherman 71
A South-Sea Islander 72
New Summer Converts 72
A Death at Sea:
I. "Dead in the Sheep-Pen" 73
II. "In the Warm, Cloudy Night" 74
III. "Dirge" 74
_PART III.--AUSTRALIA_.
The Outcasts 75
James Moorhouse 75
In the Sea Gardens: "The Man of the Nation" 78
"Upstarts" 79
Labour--Capital--Land 79
Australia 80
Art 80
"Henry George" 81
William Wallace 83
The Australian Flag 83
To an Old Friend in England: "Esau" 84
At the Seamen's Union: "The Seamen and the Miners" 84
To His Love 85
Her Poem: "My Baby Girl that was born and died on the same 86
day"
To Henry George in America 86
"Algernon Charles Swinburne" 87
To an Unionist 88
To my Friend, Sydney Jephcott 89
To E. L. Zox 89
"Father Abe": Song of the American Sons of Labour 90
"A Fool" 93
Mount Rennie:
I. The Australian Press speaks 95
II. The Time-Spirit speaks 97
"Tyranny": The Delegates speak 97
From a Verandah: "Armageddon" 98
"Elsie"--A Memory 99
"Nationalism and M'Ilwraith" 99
To the Emperor William 100
A Story 101
At the India Docks 103
Dirge: "A Little Soldier of the Army of the Night" 108
To Queen Victoria in England 109
Farewell to the Children 111
Epode: On the Ranges, Queensland 113
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Australian Press Notices 116