By Scarlet Torch and Blade

by Anthony Euwer

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

RHYMES OF OUR VALLEY CHRISTOPHER CRICKET ON CATS THE LIMERATOMY WINGS AND OTHER WAR RHYMES

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The tinder-brush has caught the spark, the temples of the night, Their purple columns towering high, glow in the amber light. (“By Scarlet Torch and Blade.”)

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BY SCARLET TORCH
AND BLADE

BY
ANTHONY EUWER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

“A four-league stretch is burning now— The cavalcade of death Moves on with scarlet torch and blade And with a scarlet breath.”

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright, 1923
by
Anthony Euwer

Second printing, January, 1926

Made in the United States of America

To the Memory of
MY SISTER
MARIAN

WHOSE NEVER FAILING ENCOURAGEMENT
WENT FAR TOWARD THE MAKING OF
THIS BOOK.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

To all the joy that colors give beneath the sun and moon; to all pleasurable sounds and wholesome odors of the earth and air and sea; to the warmth and glow of genial firesides and to the bite of winter winds; to the rain upon the lichens; to the majesty of mountains and the awfulness of high places; to the darkness of caves and the friendliness of far-off trails; to every furry thing—the shy, the dumb, and whatsoever creature has found expression in his fancy; to both the nobler and the meaner natures of men; to life’s laughter and life’s tears and to all fruitful experience; to these sources, for whatsoever good may here be found, the author makes acknowledgment.

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A number of the rhymes in the present volume have previously appeared in the Associated Press, Judge, Leslie’s, the Oregon Sunday Journal, and The Open Road. For permission to reprint the drawings the author is indebted to the publishers of Scribner’s Magazine.

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