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Title: The Singing Man
Author: Josephine Preston Peabody
A Book of Songs and Shadows
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Language: English
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THE SINGING MAN
A Book of Songs and
Shadows
By JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
[Illustration]
_BOSTON_ and _NEW YORK_
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS
_Published November 1911_
NOTE
Thanks are especially due to the editors of The American Magazine,
Scribner's, The Atlantic Monthly, and to Messrs. Harper and Brothers,
for their courteous permission to reprint certain of the poems included
in this volume.
FOREWORD
We make our songs as we must, from fragments of the joy and sorrow of
living. What Life itself may be, we cannot know till all men share the
chance to know.
Until the day of some more equal portion, there is no human brightness
unhaunted by this black shadow: the thought of those unnumbered who pay
all the heavier cost of life, to live and die without knowledge that
there is any Joy of Living.
No song could face such blackness, but for the will to share, and for
hope of the day of sharing.
Upon that hope and that mindfulness, the poems in this book are linked
together.
J.P.M.
4 October, 1911.
CONTENTS
THE SINGING MAN 3
THE TREES 15
_O, do you remember? How it came to be?_ 21
RICH MAN, POOR MAN 23
_But we did walk in Eden_ 29
THE FOUNDLING 31
_Love sang to me. And I went down the stair_ 35
THE FEASTER 37
_Beloved, if the moon could weep_ 43
THE GOLDEN SHOES 45
NOON AT PAESTUM
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