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Title: Sonnets from the Patagonian

Author: Donald Evans

Release Date: September 8, 2010 [EBook #33674]

Language: English

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_SONNETS FROM THE PATAGONIAN_

BOOKS _by_ DONALD EVANS

Published by #Nicholas L. Brown#:

#Discords#

#Two Deaths in the Bronx#

#Nine Poems from a Valetudinarium#

#Sonnets from the Patagonian#

Special Edition of the last title on Etruria (Italian hand-made)
paper limited to 28 numbered copies, signed by author and
publisher. Insert--one full sonnet written in the author's hand.
$15.00.

_This edition is limited to 750 copies._

_Sonnets from the Patagonian_

(_Donald Evans_)

_Philadelphia Nicholas L. Brown 1918_

#Copyright, 1918
by
Nicholas L. Brown#

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_My dear Cornwall Hollis_:

_With the Allied cause crumbling away it is high time we thought of
aesthetics. As a triste jest I said that to you the other day, and your
reply was a plea to let you write a preface for a new edition of my
forgotten Sonnets from the Patagonian. I am at last persuaded, and who
but you should do the preface?_

_With Mitteleuropa a fact it should be apparent to any honest, thinking
man that we are losing the War. Perhaps, in a larger sense, we have
already lost the War and the dusk of the Anglo-Saxon is come. Then we
are at last joined with the Hellenes and Latins in the descending scale,
and it is the Teuton now approaching the perihelion, with the Slav, yet
to conquer, in the far distance. But that is an eye-survey for eternity,
and we have merely to do with the finite present. So we may still think
of resistance, and not yet abandon hope of postponing defeat._

_It is now the hour for the supreme test of America, and she too must
fail, as ou