The Constellations 265 The Third of November, 1861 266 The Mother's Hymn 267 Sella 268 The Fifth Book of Homer's Odyssey.--Translated 282 The Little People of the Snow 297 The Poet 306 The Path 308 The Return of the Birds 310 "He hath put all Things under His Feet" 312 My Autumn Walk 313 Dante 315 The Death of Lincoln 316 The Death of Slavery 317 Hymn.--"Receive thy Sight" 319 A Brighter Day 320 Among the Trees 321 May Evening 325 October, 1866 327 The Order of Nature. (From Boethius de Consolatione) 329 Tree-Burial 330 A Legend of the Delawares 332 A Lifetime 336 The Two Travellers 341 Christmas in 1875. (Supposed to be written by a Spaniard) 343 The Flood of Years 344 Our Fellow-Worshippers 348 NOTES 350 POEMS. THE AGES I. When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, and ripe in wisdom, lays His silver temples in their last repose; When, o'er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows And blights the fairest; when our bitter tears Stream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fears Lest goodness die with them, and leave the coming years. II.