The Singing Man by Josephine Preston Peabody
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Title: The Singing Man
A Book of Songs and Shadows
Author: Josephine Preston Peabody
Release Date: December 30, 2004 [EBook #14531]
Language: English
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THE SINGING MAN
A Book of Songs and
Shadows
By JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
[Illustration]
BOSTON_ and _NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKS
Published November 1911
NOTE
Thanks are especially due to the editors of The American Magazine, Scribner's, The Atlantic Monthly, and to Messrs. Harper and Brothers, for their courteous permission to reprint certain of the poems included in this volume.
FOREWORD
We make our songs as we must, from fragments of the joy and sorrow of living. What Life itself may be, we cannot know till all men share the chance to know.
Until the day of some more equal portion, there is no human brightness unhaunted by this black shadow: the thought of those unnumbered who pay all the heavier cost of