Behind the Arras

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Title: Behind the Arras
A Book of the Unseen
Author: Bliss Carman
Illustrator: T. B. Meteyard
Release Date: April 24, 2006 [EBook #18242]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Behind the Arras
A Book of the
Unseen

By Bliss Carman
With Designs by T. B. Meteyard
[Illustration: VT CRESCIT]
Boston and New York?Lamson, Wolffe, and Company
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Copyright, 1895.
by Lamson, Wolffe, & Co.
All rights reserved.
Contents
Behind the Arras 1
Fancy's Fool 16
The Moondial 19
The Face in the Stream 23
The Cruise of the Galleon 29
A Song before Sailing 32
In the Wings 35
The Red Wolf 37
The Faithless Lover 44
The Crimson House 46
The Lodger 49
Beyond the Gamut 66
The Juggler 81
Hack and Hew 85
The Night Express 87
The Dustman 91
The Sleepers 94
At the Granite Gate 96
Exit Anima 100
To G. H. B.
"I shut myself in with my soul,?And the shapes come eddying forth."
[Illustration: Behind the Arras]
_Behind the Arras_
I like the old house tolerably well,?Where I must dwell?Like a familiar gnome;?And yet I never shall feel quite at home:?I love to roam.
Day after day I loiter and explore?From door to door;?So many treasures lure?The curious mind. What histories obscure?They must immure!
I hardly know which room I care for best;?This