Hawthorn and Lavender, by William Ernest Henley
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Title: Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses
Author: William Ernest Henley
Release Date: June 1, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1901 David Nutt edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
HAWTHORN AND LAVENDER
With Other Verses , by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days ?
SHAKESPEARE
LONDON Published by DAVID NUTT at the Sign of the Phœnix IN LONG A CRE 1901 First Edition printed October 1901 Second Edition printed November 1901 Edinburgh: T. and A. C ONSTABLE, (late) Printers to Her Majesty
p. iv
Dedication
Ask me not how they came , These songs of love and death , These dreams of a futile stage , These thumb-nails seen in the street : Ask me not how nor why , But take them for your own , Dear Wife of twenty years , Knowing—O, who so well?— You it was made the man That made these songs of love , Death, and the trivial rest : So that, your love elsewhere , These songs, or bad or ...
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