A.C. KING

Mountain Idylls
and Other Poems

BY

ALFRED CASTNER KING

TO THE MANY FRIENDS WHO HAVE SO
KINDLY ASSISTED IN THE ARRANGEMENT
OF THE MANUSCRIPTS FOR
PUBLICATION, AFTER THE SHADOWS
OF HOPELESS BLINDNESS DESCENDED
UPON ME FOREVER, THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

Table of Contents.

Preface

Grandeur

Nature's Child

To the Pines

Reflections

Life's Mystery

The Fallen Tree

There is an Air of Majesty

Think Not That the Heart Is Devoid of Emotion

Humanity's Stream

Nature's Lullaby

The Spirit of freedom is Born of the Mountains

The Valley of the San Miguel

To Mother Huberta

Suggested by a Mountain Eagle

The Silvery San Juan

As the Shifting Sands of the Desert

Missed

If I Have Lived Before

The Darker Side

The Miner

Life's Undercurrent

They Cannot See the Wreaths We Place

Mother—Alpha and Omega

Empty are the Mother's Arms

In Deo Fides

Shall Love, as the Bridal Wreath, Whither and Die?...