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COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
KAHLIL GIBRAN
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

[God’s Fool 9]
[Love 15]
[The King-Hermit 17]
[The Lion’s Daughter 22]
[Tyranny 26]
[The Saint 27]
[The Plutocrat 29]
[The Greater Self 30]
[War and the Small Nations 32]
[Critics 33]
[Poets 35]
[The Weather-cock 37]
[The King of Aradus 38]
[Out of My Deeper Heart 39]
[Dynasties 41]
[Knowledge and Half-Knowledge 44]
[“Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper....” 46]
[The Scholar and the Poet 47]
[Values 50]
[Other Seas 51]
[Repentance 52]
[The Dying Man and the Vulture 53]
[Beyond My Solitude 55]
[The Last Watch 57]

THE FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
IN THIS VOLUME ARE RE-
PRODUCED FROM ORIGINAL
DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.