The Book-Lover's Library

Edited by

Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.

BOOK-SONG

AN

ANTHOLOGY OF POEMs of booKS AND

BOOKMEN FROM MODERN AUTHORS

EDITED BY

GLEESON WHITE

Editor of "Ballades and Rondeaus," Garde Joyeuse,"
etc., etc.

LONDON

ELLIOT STOCK, 62 PATERNOSTER ROW

1893

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

THE BEQUEST OF

THEODORE JEWETT EASTMAN

1931

TO

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE.

Five years ago a promise lightly made Is claimed herein, as with a doubting pen I dedicate this sheaf of verse which then You bade me gather. But I, half afraid, Dallied, and loitered, and long while delayed; Now Time has brought new idols to our ken, Anthologies no longer charm as when A lustrum since this garnering you bade. The English rose of song is not less sweet; The petals borne from England oversea Delight us still; but pulses slower beat To books than Life; that volume which to me, Though torn and dog-eared, sadly incomplete, Holds one bright chapter headed "Memory."

G. W.