Produced by Al Haines GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1893 BY JAMES W. RILEY TO MY SISTERS ELVA AND MARY CONTENTS. PROEM Artemus of Michigan, The As My Uncle Used to Say At Utter Loaf August Autumn Bedouin Being His Mother Blind Blossoms on the Trees, The By Any Other Name By Her White Bed Chant of the Cross-Bearing Child, The Country Pathway, A Cup of Tea, A Curse of the Wandering Foot, The Cyclone, The Dan Paine Dawn, Noon and Dewfall Discouraging Model, A Ditty of No Tone, A Don Piatt of Mac-o-chee Dot Leedle Boy Dream of Autumn, A Elizabeth Envoy Farmer Whipple--Bachelor Full Harvest, A Glimpse of Pan, A Go, Winter Her Beautiful Eyes Hereafter, The His Mother's Way His Vigil Home at Night Home-Going, The Hoodoo, The Hoosier Folk-Child, The How John Quit the Farm Iron Horse, The Iry and Billy and Jo Jack the Giant-Killer Jap Miller John Alden and Percilly John Brown John McKeen Judith June at Woodruff Just to Be Good Last Night--And This Let Us Forget Little Fat Doctor, The Longfellow Lounger, A Monument for the Soldiers, A Mr. What's-His-Name My Friend Nessmuk North and South Old Retired Sea Captain, The Old Winters on the Farm Old Year and the New, The On the Banks o' Deer Crick Out of Nazareth Passing of A Heart, The Plaint Human, The Quarrel, The Quiet Lodger, The Reach Your Hand to Me Right Here at Home Rival, The Rivals, The; or the Showman's Ruse Robert Burns Wilson Rose, The September Dark Shoemaker, The Singer, The Sister Jones's Confession Sleep Some Scattering Remarks of Bub's Song of Long Ago, A Southern Singer, A Suspense Thanksgiving Their Sweet Sorrow Them Flowers To an Importunate Ghost To Hear Her Sing Tom Van Arden To the Serenader Tugg Martin Twins, The Wandering Jew, The Watches of the Night, The Water Color, A We to Sigh Instead of Sing What Chris'mas Fetched the Wigginses When Age Comes On Where-Away While the Musician Played Wife-Blessed, The Wraith of Summertime, A GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS Ho! green fields and running brooks! Knotted strings and fishing-hooks Of the truant, stealing down Weedy backways of the town. Where the sunshine overlooks, By green fields and running brooks, All intruding guests of chance With a golden tolerance, Cooing doves, or pensive pair Of picnickers, straying there-- By green fields and running brooks, Sylvan shades and mossy nooks! And--O Dreamer of the Days, Murmurer of roundelays All unsung of words or books, Sing green fields and running brooks! A COUNTRY PATHWAY.