Let him never dream that his bullet's scream went wide of its
island mark,
Home to the heart of his darling land where she stumbled
and sinned in the dark.
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
What is "his state," in line five? How has the soldier been "wronged"?
Does the author think that the fight in the Philippines has not been
"good"? Why? What does he mean by the last line of stanza two? What
"evil days" are those mentioned in stanza three? Have they come yet?
What "faithless past" is meant? Do you think that the United States has
treated the Philippines unfairly?[14]
COLLATERAL READINGS
Gloucester Moors and Other Poems William Vaughn Mood
Poems and Plays of William Vaughn
Moody (2 vols. Biographical introduction) John M. Manley (Ed.)
Letters of William Vaughn Moody Daniel Mason (Ed.)
Out of Gloucester J.B. Connolly
For biography, criticism, and portraits of William Vaughn Moody,
consult: Atlantic Monthly, 98:326, September, 1906; World's Work, 13:
8258, December, 1906 (Portrait); Century, 73:431 (Portrait); Reader,
10:173; Bookman, 32:253 (Portrait.)
THE COON DOG
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
(In _The Queen's Twin and Other Stories_)
I
In the early dusk of a warm September evening the bats were flitting to
and fro, as if it were still summer, under the great elm that
overshadowed Isaac Brown's house, on the Dipford road. Isaac Brown
himself, and his old friend and neighbor John York, were leaning against
the fence.
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