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HEART OF MAN
BY
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY

COPYRIGHT 1899,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
1899

"Deep in the general heart of man"
--WORDSWORTH


TO THE MEMORY OF
EUGENE MONTGOMERY
MY FRIEND

DEAR WAS HIS PRAISE, AND PLEASANT 'TWERE TO ME,
ON WHOSE FAR GRAVE TO-NIGHT THE DEEP SNOWS DRIFT;
IT NEEDS NOT NOW; TOGETHER WE SHALL SEE
HOW HIGH CHRIST'S LILIES O'ER MAN'S LAURELS LIFT

February 18, 1899.


PREFACE

OF the papers contained in this volume
"Taormina" was published in the _Century
Magazine_; the others are new. The intention
of the author was to illustrate how poetry, politics,
and religion are the flowering of the same
human spirit, and have their feeding roots in
a common soil, "deep in the general heart of
men."
COLUMBIA COLLEGE,
February 22, 1809.


CONTENTS

TAORMINA
A NEW DEFENCE OF POETRY
DEMOCRACY
THE RIDE


TAORMINA

I
What should there be in the glimmering lights of a poor fishing-village
to fascinate me? Far below, a mile perhaps, I behold them in the
darkness and the storm like some phosphorescence of the beach; I see the
pale tossing of the surf beside them; I hear the continuous roar borne
up and softened about these heights; and this is night at Taormina.
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