LYRA HEROICA
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A BOOK OF VERSE FOR BOYS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Sir Walter Scott.
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1920
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
⁂ The selections from Walt Whitman are published by permission of Mr. Whitman; and those from Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, and Bret Harte, through the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., the publishers of their works.
TO WALTER BLAIKIE ARTIST-PRINTER MY PART IN THIS BOOK
W. E. H.
Edinburgh, July 1891.