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Thou low, carousing dog, bereft of pride.

  Go, quit my sight, and try to mend thy ways;

  I cannot stand thy moist, adoring gaze.

  THE TRUCKSTERS

  I love the trucksters’ voices

  Outside my humble door.

  When Dawn alone rejoices

  I love to hear them roar.

  They wake me in the morning

  With a wild Homeric oath,

  And I rise, all slumber scorning,

  For I cannot be a sloth

  When I hear the voice of trucksters

  Booming forth at break of day.

  Oh, I love the voice of trucksters,

  And the violent things they say.

  THE OLD BRICK WALK

  They planted purple violets here before the bricks were laid,

  And later when the spring tide came and all the world grew fair,

  The violets struggled through the chinks the swollen earth had made

  And gave the drowsy fragrance of their petals to the air.

  All this was very long ago, and those who placed the seed

  Have lain these years behind the hedge in shrub embowered gloom.

  Forgotten is the garden now beneath the grass and weed,

  But still upon the blood red bricks the purple violets bloom.

  The garden is a silent place alive with hidden things,

  And sometimes on the old brick walk there squats a great green toad.

  Occasionally a lazy bird bestirs itself and sings, while

  from afar an ancient cart comes creaking down the road.

  This old lost spot I now behold through disillusioned eyes.

  The mound that once a mountain was is scarce a fairy hill,

  And all my lovely vista-glades in mystery and size

  Have shrunk, yet on the crumbling bricks the violets cluster still.

  THE OUT ROAD

  When I have gone away and left behind

  Familiar things well loved, old haunts and friends,

  Let those who think of me in friendship find

  Gay colored thoughts as when the sunset sends

  Across the quiet dusk its parting rays

  And leaves a promise glowing in the sky

  Of brighter days to come, far brighter days,

  And memories of golden days gone by.

  So would I have them think of me and hear

  The echoes of my laughter and my song

  Across the tranquil twilight ringing clear,

  As merrily I take my way along

  The winding road, until at last I rest

  Beneath green trees where comrades laugh and jest.

  THE QUEST

  I’m going out to dig for beauty with my bare, bare hands.

  I’m going to dig the soil and scoop the singing sands

  And scratch among the rocks and roots and wade through mire and mud.

  I’m going out to dig until my hands are quick with blood.

  I’m going out to touch beauty,

  See beauty,

  Live beauty,

  I’m going out to look for beauty and dream of it no more.

  I’ve made a hunting park of beauty, stocked with fat, drab birds.

  I’ve sallied forth in search of it and bagged a brace of words.

  I’ve sought to tame it in a rhyme and snare it in a phrase

  Of clever unreality that critics damned with praise.

  I’m going out to touch beauty,

  See beauty,

  Live beauty,

  I’m going out to look for beauty and dream of it no more.

  I’ve had my fill of lamp lit salons with their green jade talk,

  Where women bare their burning souls, and poets slouch and stalk.

  The coffee cup and candle light, I’ve had enough of these.

  I long to tread where silence is and solitude and trees.

  I’m going out to touch beauty,

  See beauty,

  Live beauty,

  I’m going out to look for beauty and dream of it no more.

  I’m going out to look for beauty in the hearts of men

  Wherever it may chance to be in palace, hedge or den,

  To labor and carouse with them and share the common weal,

  To laugh and love and lose with them and feel the things they feel.

  I’m going out to touch beauty,

  See beauty,

  Live beauty,

  I’m going out to look for beauty and dream of it no more.

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  Anton Chekhov

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  Dickensiana Volume I

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  Alexander Pushkin

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  W. W. Jacobs

  Series Eight

  Anna Katharine Green

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  The Brothers Grimm

  C. S. Lewis

  Charles and Mary Lamb

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Ernest Bramah

  Francis Bacon

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  Grant Allen

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

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  Series Nine

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  Erasmus

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  Fergus Hume

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  Giovanni Boccaccio

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  J. M. Synge

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  Max Brand

  Molière

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  Thomas Love Peacock

  Thomas Paine

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  Series Ten

  A. E. W. Mason

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  Earl Derr Biggers

  Evelyn Waugh

  F. Marion Crawford

  Fred M. White

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  Series Eleven

  A. Merritt

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  A. A. Milne

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