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_Puck's Song_ 1
Weland's Sword 5
_A Tree Song_ 29
Young Men at the Manor 33
_Sir Richard's Song_ 55
_Harp Song of the Dane Women_ 59
The Knights of the Joyous Venture 61
_Thorkild's Song_ 87
Old Men at Pevensey 91
_The Runes on Weland's Sword_ 119
A Centurion of the Thirtieth 125
_A British-Roman Song_ 145
On the Great Wall 149
_A Song to Mithras_ 173
The Winged Hats 177
_A Pict Song_ 201
Hal o' the Draft 207
_A Smugglers' Song_ 227
_The Bee Boy's Song_ 231
'Dymchurch Flit' 233
_A Three-Part Song_ 251
_Song of the Fifth River_ 255
The Treasure and the Law 257
_The Children's Song_ 276

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

'"Go!" she says, "Go with my Leave an' Goodwill."' _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
In the very spot where Dan had stood as Puck they saw a 6
small, brown, broad-shouldered, pointy-eared person
with a snub nose, slanting blue eyes, and a grin that
ran right across his freckled face.
'There's where you meet hunters, and trappers for the 152
Circuses, prodding along chained bears and muzzled
wolves.'
'Hoity-toity!' he cried. 'Here's Pride in purple 212
feathers! Here's wrathy contempt and the Pomps of the
Flesh!'... And he doffed his cap to the bubbling bird.

PUCK OF POOK'S HILL

PUCK'S SONG

_See you the dimpled track that runs,_
_All hollow through the wheat?_
_O that was where they hauled the guns_
_That smote King Philip's fleet._

_See you our little mill that clacks,_
_So busy by the brook?_
_She has ground her corn and paid her tax_
_Ever since Domesday Book._

_See you our stilly woods of oak,_
_And the dread ditch beside?_
_O that was where the Saxons broke,_
_On the day that Harold died._

_See you the windy levels