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"The Triumph of Music" from Madison Cawein. Poet from Louisville, Kentucky (1865-1914).

"Myth and Romance: Being a Book of Verses" is a collection of poems by Madison Julius Cawein, known as the "Keats of Kentucky" for his descriptions of Kentucky that echoed the language of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The collection contains such novels as "Myth and Romance," "Genius Loci," "The Rain-Crow," "The Harvest Moon," "The Old Water-Mill," "Anthem of Dawn," "Dithyrambics," and "Hymn to Desire."