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ACKNOWLEDGMENT<br />

For permission to reprint certain <strong>poems</strong> in this book thanks are due to<br />

the editors and proprietors <strong>of</strong> the _Century Magazine_, the<br />

_Independent_, _The Crisis_, _The New York Times_, and the following<br />

copyright holders, G. Ricordi and Company, G. Schirmer and Company,<br />

and Joseph W. Stern and Company.<br />

CONTENTS<br />

Fifty Years<br />

To America<br />

O Black and Unknown Bards<br />

O Southland<br />

To Horace Bumstead<br />

The Color Sergeant<br />

The Black Mammy<br />

Father, Father Abraham<br />

Br<strong>other</strong>s<br />

Fragment<br />

The White Witch<br />

M<strong>other</strong> Night<br />

The Young Warrior<br />

The Glory <strong>of</strong> the Day Was in Her Face<br />

From the Spanish <strong>of</strong> Plácido<br />

From the Spanish<br />

From the German <strong>of</strong> Uhland<br />

Before a Painting<br />

I Hear the Stars Still Singing<br />

Girl <strong>of</strong> Fifteen<br />

The Suicide

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