_CONTENTS_
_The Passing of the Storm_ _Page_
_I._ _The Storm_ _17_
_II._ _A Chapter from an Old Man's Life_ _28_
_III._ _The Prisoner_ _36_
_IV._ _A Sequel of the Lost Cause_ _49_
_V._ _The Avalanche_ _58_
_VI._ _The Rescue_ _65_
_VII._ _The Blight of War_ _72_
_VIII._ _The Story of an Exile_ _93_
_IX._ _Conclusion_ _115_
_Dolores_ _120_
_Great Shepherd of the Countless Flocks
of Stars_ _122_
_The Ruined Cabin_ _123_
_An Idyll_ _124_
_The Borderland of Sleep_ _125_
_Stellar Nocturne_ _126_
_Father, at Thy Altar Kneeling_ _127_
_Dreams_ _128_
_Nocturne_ _129_
_The True Faith_ _131_
_A Fragment_ _131_
_Mortality_ _132_
_LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_
_Facing Page_
_"The mountains lay in calm repose
Slumbering 'neath their robes of white."_ _Title._
_"As stormy cowls their summits hid."_ _17_
_"Exceeding the tremendous height
Of brother peaks, on left and right."_ _26_
_"Beseamed with countless scars and rents
From combat with the elements."_ _30_
_"He towered with mute and massive form
A challenge to the gathering storm."_ _40_
_"With swift and spoliating flow,
Uprooting many a noble tree,
To strew the desert's waste below,
With scattered drift-wood and debris."_ _50_
_"Arrayed in Nature's pristine dress
This was, indeed, a wilderness."_ _62_
_"We grew as two twin pines might grow,
Upon some isolated edge,
Of some lone precipice or ledge."_ _70_
_"The noble spruce and stately fir
Stood draped in feathery garniture."_ _114_
_"From the mountain peaks crested with snow."_ _120_
_"High up on the cliffs in their dwellings
Which were apertures walled up with rocks,
Lived this people, sequestered and happy;
Their dwellings now serve the wild fox."_ _126_
_"As it fearlessly leaps o'er the rocky wall
From the mountain peaks stern and hoary."_ _130_
_"I love the lake in the mountain's lap."_ _134_
[Illustration:
"As stormy cowls their summits hid."
_See page 19._]
_The Passing of the Storm_