HILLS OF HAN
Reading edition
A Romantic Incident
By Samuel Merwin
Illustrated by Walt Louderback
Indianapolis
The Bobbs. Merrill Company Publishers
1919
Hills of Han,
Slumber on! The sunlight, dying,
Lingers on your terraced tops;
Yellow stream and willow sighing,
Field of twice ten thousand crops
Breathe their misty lullabying,
Breathe a life that nei'er stops.
Spin your chart of ancient wonder,
Fold your hands within your sleeve,
Live and let live, work and ponder,
Be tradition, dream, believe...
So abides your ancient plan,
Hills of Han!
Hills of Han,
What's this filament goes leaping
Pole to pole and hill to hill?
What these strips of metal creeping
Where the dead have lain so still.
What this wilder thought that's seeping
Where was peace and gentle will?
Smoke of mill on road and river,
Roar of steam by temple wall...
Drop the arrow in the quiver...
Bow to Buddha.... All is all!
Slumber they who slumber can,
Hills of Han!
CONTENTS
NOTE
HILLS OF HAN
CHAPTER I—THE SOLITARY
CHAPTER II—ROMANCE
CHAPTER III—THE SHEPHERD
CHAPTER IV—THE RIDDLE OF LIFE, AND OF DEATH
CHAPTER V—IN T'AINAN
CHAPTER VI—CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER VII—LOVE IS A TROUBLE
CHAPTER VIII—THE WAYFARER
CHAPTER IX—KNOTTED LIVES
CHAPTER X—GRANITE
CHAPTER XI—EMOTION
CHAPTER XII—STORM CENTER
CHAPTER XIII—THE PLEDGE
CHAPTER XIV—DILEMMA
CHAPTER XV—THE HILLS
CHAPTER XVI—DESTINY
CHAPTER XVII—APPARITION
CHAPTER XVIII—THE DARK
CHAPTER XIX—LIVING THROUGH
CHAPTER XX—LIGHT
CHAPTER XXI—THE SOULS OF MEN
CHAPTER XXII—BEGINNINGS