Wampum and Old Gold
HERVEY ALLEN
NEW HAVEN * YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON * HUMPHREY MILFORD * OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For permission to reprint poems appearing in this volume, thanks are due to the editors of The North American Review, The New Republic, Contemporary Verse, Life, La France, Harvey's Weekly, The Southern Review, The New York Times, The Boston Evening Transcript.
TO
FRANCIS FOWLER HOGAN
SOLDIER POET
CORPORAL FOURTH UNITED STATES INFANTRY
KILLED IN ACTION IN THE ARGONNE FOREST
OCTOBER SEVENTEENTH
1918
"Though my hands have not learned to model
The dreams of a groping mind,
Though my lips have not spoken their music
And are leaving no songs behind,
Think not that my life has been futile,
Nor grieve for an unsaid word,
For all that my lips might never sing
My singing heart has heard.