Chapter I: Front Matter

THE SINGING LEAVES
A BOOK OF SONGS AND SPELLS BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

‘_Come, my beloved, let us go forth
into the field. Let us lodge in the
villages._’

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
=The Riverside Press Cambridge=

COPYRIGHT 1903 BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published November, 1903_

TENTH IMPRESSION

Thanks are due to the editors of
Harper’s Monthly, Scribner’s Magazine,
and other periodicals, for their
courteous permission to reprint many of
the following poems.

THE SINGING LEAVES

DEDICATION.

Whosoever cares to look
In my little Book,
If he care to look again,
Let him so; and then,
Should there be a very few
Glad to say Amen
To old wonders ever new,
—Why, it is for You.

SONGS AND SPELLS.

THE HOUSE AND THE ROAD PAGE 3
CHARM TO BE SAID IN THE SUN 4
BEFORE MEAT 6
SAD TRUTH 7
GLAD TRUTH 8
THE BIRD IN THE HAND 9
WAKING 10
THE MAGIC 12
ROAD-SONGS. I. AND II. 14, 15
THE CEDARS 16
ALMS 17
THE INN 18
SINS 19
THE WATCHER 20
TO SAD-HEART 21
SONG AND NEED 22
HERE’S APRIL 25
THE COMING 26
MUSIC 27
EVER THE SAME 28
MAYBE 29
THE SONG OUTSIDE 30
THE PASSERS-BY 32

THE LITTLE PAST.
JOURNEY 35
SUNSET 37
THE BUSY CHILD 38
CONCERNING LOVE 40
COW-BELLS 41
WIND 42
THE MYSTIC 43
THE MASTERPIECE 44
LATE 46
CAKES AND ALE 47
EARLY 48

THE YOUNG THINGS.
THE SAPLING 51
THE HERO 52
NESTS 53
SIDE-STREETS 55
THE FIR-TREE 56
EARLY-HEART 57
BEAUTIFUL 58
AFTER ALL 59
VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER 60
THE TOP OF THE MORNING 62
FORETHOUGHT 63
UNSAID 64
DANCE-TIME 65
THE ENCHANTED SHEEP-FOLD 67
YES, LOVE IS BLIND 69
THE MORNING WAS SO BRIGHT 71
THE TWO 73
AFTER-THOUGHT 74

OTHERS.
NEAR AND FAR 77
FRIENDS ALL 78
VANTAGE 79
A SONG OF SOLOMON 80
COUNSEL TO BEGGARS 81
THE TWA CHEERLESS 83
THE WALK 84
REFRAINS 86
OUTSIDE THE MUSIC 87
THE FAIREST 88
THE CHILD AND THE ANGEL 90
READING FOR THE POOR 91
THE BLIND ONE 92
HOLIDAY 93
THE FOOL 94
DRUDGE 96
THE YOUNGEST DRYAD 97
COME BUY! 99
PRINCE CHARLIE 100
THE MEETING 101
THE COBBLER 102
MIRACLE 103
OPEN HOUSE 104
O SLEEP, SLEEP, SLEEP! 105
THE CLOUD 107
THE RAVENS 109
NEIGHBORS 111
THE MORNING SOUL 112
THE HILL-TOP 114
THE DOVES 115
FOUND 116
ALL HAIL 117
THE ANOINTED 119