HYMN TO THE NIGHT.

A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST.

THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS.

THE LIGHT OF STARS.

FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS.

FLOWERS.

THE BELEAGUERED CITY.

MIDNIGHT MASS FOR THE DYING YEAR

AUTUMN

WOODS IN WINTER.

HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS OF BETHLEHEM

SUNRISE ON THE HILLS

THE SPIRIT OF POETRY

BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK

L' ENVOI

THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

ENDYMION

IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY

THE RAINY DAY

GOD'S-ACRE.

TO THE RIVER CHARLES.

BLIND BARTIMEUS

THE GOBLET OF LIFE

MAIDENHOOD

EXCELSIOR

TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING

THE SLAVE'S DREAM

THE GOOD PART

THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP

THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT

THE WITNESSES

THE QUADROON GIRL

THE WARNING

Scene IV. — An inn on the road to Alcala. BALTASAR asleep on a bench. Enter CHISPA.

SCENE V. — VICTORIAN'S chambers at Alcala. HYPOLITO asleep in an arm-chair. He awakes slowly.

ACT II.

SCENE II — A room in the ARCHBISHOP'S Palace. The ARCHBISHOP and a CARDINAL seated.

SCENE III. — The Prado. A long avenue of trees leading to the gate of Atocha. On the right the dome and spires of a convent. A fountain. Evening, DON CARLOS and HYPOLITO meeting.

SCENE IV. — PRECIOSA'S chamber. She is sitting, with a book in her hand, near a table, on which are flowers. A bird singing in its cage. The COUNT OF LARA enters behind unperceived.

SCENE V. — The COUNT OF LARA'S rooms. Enter the COUNT.

SCENE VI. — A retired spot beyond the city gates. Enter VICTORIAN and HYPOLITO.

SCENE VII. — A lane in the suburbs. Night. Enter CRUZADO and BARTOLOME.

SCENE VIII. — The Theatre. The orchestra plays the cachucha. Sound of castanets behind the scenes. The curtain rises, and discovers PRECIOSA in the attitude of commencing the dance. The cachucha. Tumult; hisses; cries of "Brava!" and "Afuera!" She falters and pauses. The music stops. General confusion. PRECIOSA faints.

SCENE IX. — The COUNT OF LARA'S chambers. LARA and his friends at supper.

SCENE X. — Street and garden wall. Night. Enter CRUZADO and BARTOLOME.

SCENE XI. — PRECIOSA'S bedchamber. Midnight. She is sleeping in an armchair, in an undress. DOLORES watching her.

ACT III.

SCENE II. — Public square in the village of Guadarrama. The Ave Maria still tolling. A crowd of villagers, with their hats in their hands, as if in prayer. In front, a group of Gypsies. The bell rings a merrier peal. A Gypsy dance. Enter PANCHO, followed by PEDRO CRESPO.

SCENE IV. — A post-house on the road to Segovia, not far from the village of Guadarrama. Enter CHISPA, cracking a whip, and singing the cachucha.

SCENE V. — The Gypsy camp in the forest. Night. Gypsies working at a forge. Others playing cards by the firelight. Gypsies