_Price, $1.25; leather, $1.60_
This book contains among other verses: “On Reading Omar Khayyam during
an Anti-Saloon Campaign in Illinois”; “The Wizard Wind”; “The Eagle
Forgotten,” a Memorial to John P. Altgeld; “The Knight in Disguise,”
a Memorial to O. Henry; “The Rose and the Lotus”; “Michaelangelo”;
“Titian”; “What the Hyena Said”; “What Grandpa Mouse Said”; “A Net to
Snare the Moonlight”; “Springfield Magical”; “The Proud Farmer”; “The
Illinois Village”; “The Building of Springfield.”
=COMMENTS ON THE TITLE POEM:=
“This poem, at once so glorious, so touching and poignant in its
conception and expression ... is perhaps the most remarkable poem of
a decade--one that defies imitation.”--_Review of Reviews._
“A sweeping and penetrating vision that works with a naïve charm....
No American poet of to-day is more a people’s poet.”--_Boston
Transcript._
“One could hardly overpraise ‘General Booth.’”--_New York Times._
“Something new in verse, spontaneous, passionate, unmindful of
conventions in form and theme.”--_The Living Age._
_PROSE BY THE SAME AUTHOR_