Harilek

HARILEK A Romance
BY “GANPAT”
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
TO ARYENIS SOMETIMES DELICIOUSLY SAPIENTISSIMA SOMETIMES ADORABLY BABETTE
I’ll tell you a tale of a far-off land,
Cliff-girt o’er the yellow desert sand,
And crowned with peaks of snow;
Of forests of pine and a garden gay,
Of shirts of mail in a steel-capped fray,
And shafts from the six-foot bow.
Of soldier-men and of maidens fair—