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Title: Seven Miles to Arden

Author: Ruth Sawyer

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SEVEN MILES TO ARDEN

by

RUTH SAWYER

Author of
_The Primrose Ring_

Illustrated

Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York & London

SEVEN MILES TO ARDEN

Copyright, 1915, 1916, by The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1915, 1916, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published April, 1916

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BOOKS BY
RUTH SAWYER

SEVEN MILES TO ARDEN. Illustrated. Post 8vo
THE PRIMROSE RING. Illustrated. Post 8vo

HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK

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[Illustration: (See page 220)
"Where twin oaks rustle in the wind
There waits a lad for Rosalind"]

_TO
HIMSELF_

_It leads away, at the ring o' day,
On to the beckoning hills;
And the throstles sing by the holy spring
Which the Blessed Virgin fills.

White is the road and light is the load,
For the burden we bear together.
Our feet beat time on the upward climb
That ends in the purpling heather.

There is spring in the air and everywhere
The throb of a life new-born,
In mating thrush and blossoming brush,
In the hush o' the glowing morn.

Our hearts bound free as the open sea;
Where now is our dole o' sorrow?
The winds have swept the tears we've wept--
And promise a braver morrow.

But this I pray as we go our way:
To find the Hills o' Heather,
And, at hush o' night, in peace to