Poems in Many Lands

POEMS IN MANY LANDS
Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH CHANDOS STREET, LONDON
BY RENNELL RODD
LONDON DAVID BOGUE, 3, ST. MARTIN’S PLACE TRAFALGAR SQUARE, W.C. 1883.
The kind reception my first small volume of “Songs in the South” met with, has induced me to include a few of those poems in this more complete volume of early lyrics.
I have to acknowledge the permission to reprint one or two poems which have been previously published in magazines, or as songs.
R. R.
December, 1882.

There was a night when you and I Looked up from where we lay, When we were children, and the sky Was not so far away.
We looked towards the deep dark blue Beyond our window bars, And into all our dreaming drew The spirit of the stars.
We did not see the world asleep— We were already there! We did not find the way so steep To climb that starry stair.