  Transcriber's Note: The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO THE SONG OF HUGH GLASSBY JOHN G. NEIHARDT WITH NOTES BY JULIUS T. HOUSE Head of the Department of English at the State Normal School, Wayne, Nebraska New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 All rights reserved Copyright, 1915, 1919, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1915. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. TO SIGURD, SCARCELY THREE When you are old enough to know The joys of kite and boat and bow And other suchlike splendid things That boyhood’s rounded decade brings, I shall not give you tropes and rhymes; But, rising to those rousing times, I shall ply well the craft I know Of shaping kite and boat and bow, For you shall teach me once again The goodly art of being ten. Meanwhile, as on a rainy day When ‘tis not possible to play, The while you do your best to grow I ply the other craft I know And strive to build for you the mood Of daring and of fortitude With fitted word and shapen phrase, Against those later wonder-days When first you glimpse the world of men Beyond the bleaker side of ten. |
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