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EBOOK LYRA HEROICA ***


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LYRA HEROICA
A BOOK OF VERSE FOR BOYS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
_Sir Walter Scott._

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

*** The selections from Walt Whitman are published by permission
of Mr. Whitman; and those from Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier,
and Bret Harte, through the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton,
Mifflin, & Co., the publishers of their works.

TO WALTER BLAIKIE
ARTIST-PRINTER
MY PART IN THIS BOOK
W. E. H.
Edinburgh, July 1891.


PREFACE

This book of verse for boys is, I believe, the first of its
kind in English. Plainly, it were labour lost to go gleaning
where so many experts have gone harvesting; and for what is
rarest and best in English Poetry the world must turn, as
heretofore, to the several 'Golden Treasuries' of Professor
Palgrave and Mr.
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