Front matter
Reading edition
Author of "Kildares of Storm," etc.
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1919
Copyright, 1919, by The Century Co.
Published, March, 1919
TO MRS. RICHARD W. KNOTT friend and neighbor to many young women such as JOAN, whom she has helped to find the why of themselves; and whose life principle may be summed up in Virgil's phrase Paulo majora canamus— (Let us sing of higher things.)
Aime-moi, parce que j'ai besoin de ton amour pour mes chansons, Va t'en, parce que j'ai besoin de pleurer pour mes chansons, Meurs, parce que j'ai besoin de chanter la mort pour mes chansons, Car je suis le Cobzar. Quoted by Pierre de Coulevain from source unknown.
Rough translation:
Love me, because I have need of love for my songs, Leave me, because I have need of tears for my songs, Die, for I have need to sing of death in my songs, For I am the Cobzar.
