THE NEW JOAN
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
KATHERINE HALE
Author of "Gnu Knitting", "The White Comrade", Etc.
McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART,
PUBLISHERS :: :: :: TORONTO
COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1917
BY McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART, LIMITED
TORONTO
PRINTED IN CANADA
CONTENTS
[The Vision]
I. [The Child]
II. [The Law]
III. [The Kitchen]
IV. [The Land]
V. [The Battlefield]
VI. [The World]
These are chiefly songs of women's work, but there is a Christmas song for soldiers. The music of life is stilled to-day. Only the bugle note is heard. To the men in the trenches it means action, organized and perfected; to us at home it repeats the call. These songs are bound in crimson for that is the colour of courage; and in gold which signifies the strength and the joy of life which is work.