THE

DALES OF ARCADY

BY

DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE

ERSKINE MACDONALD, LTD.

LONDON, W.C.1

All Rights Reserved
First published November 1918

DEDICATED TO
THE FIRST YORKSHIREMAN I SET EYES ON
DADDY

CONTENTS

[Prologue]
[Daleshire]
[On Otley Chevin]
[The Song of Nidderdale]
[Song of the Mists]
[Wander-Thirst]
[The Road]
[The Swaling of the Moor]
[The Moors in Summer]
[My Herbary]
[Rushes]
[Satan and I]
[To the Wind]
[Saadi and the Rose]
[The Difference]
[Song of the Primroses]
[Lilies]
[The Pear-Tree]
[Beggar's Gold]
[On Early Rising]
[Jewels]
[Bargaining]
[Song of Good-Bye]
[King Yesterday]
[Kissing]
[Philosophy]
[A Thrush's Song]
[A February Day]
[Laus Deo]
["Past-Ten-O'Clock-Land"]
[To Memory]
[A War Prayer for a Little Boy]
[Star-Scandal]
[The First of July]
["The Ideal Man"]
[To the Coming Spring]
[Question]
[The Dales of Arcady]
[A War-time Grace]
[Queen Mab's Awakening]