E-text prepared by D. Alexander, Juliet Sutherland, Barbara Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) The New World BY WITTER BYNNER AN ODE TO HARVARD AND OTHER POEMS AND OTHER POEMS TIGER THE LITTLE KING THE NEW WORLD IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS The New World by WITTER BYNNER NEW YORK MITCHELL KENNERLEY 1918 NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1915 BY MITCHELL KENNERLEY The greater part of this poem was delivered before the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in June, 1911; several passages from it have appeared in Poetry, and others in The Bellman, the Boston Evening Transcript and the American Magazine. Printed in America To Celia The New World I Celia was laughing. Hopefully I said: