The Singing Man - A Book of Songs and Shadows

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Singing Man, by Josephine Preston PeabodyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Singing Man A Book of Songs and ShadowsAuthor: Josephine Preston PeabodyRelease Date: December 30, 2004 [EBook #14531]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SINGING MAN ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Amy Cunningham and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTHE SINGING MANA Book of Songs andShadowsBy JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY[Illustration]BOSTON and NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANYThe Riverside Press Cambridge1911COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY JOSEPHINE PEABODY MARKSPublished November 1911NOTEThanks 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.FOREWORDWe make our songs as we must, from fragments of the joy and sorrow of living. What Life itself may be, we cannot knowtill 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 ofthose unnumbered who pay all the heavier cost of life, to live and die without knowledge that there is any Joy of ...