CECIL CHESTERTON.

CONTENTS

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[Proem in Verse, by G. K. C.][7]
[Introduction, by Cecil Chesterton][9]
[A Song of the Open Road][13]
[The Country of the Young][15]
[The Song of Forgotten Heroes][16]
[The King’s Bride][18]
[A Georgian Snuff-Box][20]
[Ballade of Fight][22]
[To the New Helen on her Birthday][23]
[“For Any Good Cause at All”: The Ballad of Sir Kevin O’Keane][24]
[The House of the Strange Woman][26]
[Flames][28]
[In a Library][29]
[Château D’Espoir][31]
[The Song of the Flag][32]
[Les Papillons][34]
[Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters][35]
[The Digger][36]
[When My Lost Lady Comes Again][37]
[White Roses][38]
[Gladys in the Woodland][39]
[A Social Favourite][40]
[The Joyous Comrade][42]
[Truce][43]
[Romance at Rest][44]
[Voices][45]
[Some Immortals and a Moral][46]
[The Lost Land][48]
[Ballade of One-and-Twenty][50]
[When London Burns][51]
[With Bertha up the River][52]
[The Island of a Dream][53]
[Ballade of Dead Favourites][56]
[The Horseman][57]
[When I Sail to the Fortunate Islands][58]
[Little Songs Of London Streets—]
[ (1) Fleet Street][59]
[ (2) Oxford Street][59]
[Queens in Red and White][61]
[My Lady of the Violets][62]
[Old Friends, Old Books, Old Wines][63]
[The Poisoners][65]
[Princess Far-Away][66]
[The Huns at Verdun][68]
[Resurgam: Ireland, 1916][69]
[Immortal][71]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[The King’s Bride]to face [page 18]
[Truce] ““ [43]
[The Horseman]““ [57]

A SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD

THE old Earth-Mother calls us,
And we hearken unto her cry,
For we dare not question her bidding
Lest we sicken and droop and die.
The spirit of change is burning
As a fever in heart and brain.
In the ranks of the Free Companions
We must take to the road again.

We have lain in the tents of the Dwellers;
We have ta’en of their drink and food;
We, that were weary, have slumbered,
Have slumbered and found rest good.
We have kissed the lips of their maidens,
From their kin we have chosen our brides;
But the summons has come from the Mother,
And no one who hears it abides.