A Jongleur Strayed / Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane

E-text prepared by Al Haines
Transcriber's note:
The word beloved appears in this book several times, in various upper and lower case combinations. Whatever the combination, in some cases, the second E in beloved is e-accent (é) and sometimes it is e-grave (è). Since I had no way of telling if this was what the author intended, or a typesetting error, or some other reason, I have left each exactly as it appears in the original book.
Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane
With an Introduction by Oliver Herford
Garden City ————— New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1922 Copyright, 1922, by Doubleday, Page & Company All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y. First Edition
The writer desires to thank the editors of The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Life, Judge, Leslie's, Munsey's, Ainslee's, Snappy Stories, Live Stories, The Cosmopolitan , and Collier's for their kind permission to reprint the following verses.
He desires also to thank the editor of The New York Evening Post for the involuntary gift of a title.
The Catskills,
June, 1922.
If after times Should pay the least attention to these rhymes, I bid them learn 'Tis not my own heart here That doth so often seem to break and burn— O no such thing!— Nor is it my own dear Always I sing: But, as a scrivener in the market-place, I sit and write for lovers, him or her, Making a song to match each lover's case— A trifling gift sometimes the gods confer!
(After STRATO)