Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's note:

The word "beloved" appears in this book several times, in various
upper and lower case combinations. Whatever the combination, in
some cases, the second E in "beloved" is e-accent (é) and sometimes
it is e-grave (è). Since I had no way of telling if this was what
the author intended, or a typesetting error, or some other reason,
I have left each exactly as it appears in the original book.

A JONGLEUR STRAYED

Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane

by

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

With an Introduction by Oliver Herford

Garden City ---------- New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1922 Copyright, 1922, by Doubleday, Page & Company All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y. First Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The writer desires to thank the editors of _The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Life, Judge, Leslie's, Munsey's, Ainslee's, Snappy Stories, Live Stories, The Cosmopolitan_, and _Collier's_ for their kind permission to reprint the following verses.

He desires also to thank the editor of _The New York Evening Post_ for the involuntary gift of a title.

The Catskills,

June, 1922.

TO

THE LOVE

OF

ANDRÉ AND GWEN

_If after times
Should pay the least attention to these rhymes,
I bid them learn
'Tis not my own heart here
That doth so often seem to break and burn--
O no such thing!--
Nor is it my own dear
Always I sing:
But, as a scrivener in the market-place,
I sit and write for lovers, him or her,
Making a song to match each lover's case--
A trifling gift sometimes the gods confer!_

(After STRATO)

CONTENTS

I

An Echo from Horace
Ballade of the Oldest Duel in the World
Sorcery
The Dryad
May is Back
Moon-Marketing
Two Birthdays
Song
The Faithful Lover
Love's Tenderness
Anima Mundi
Ballade of the Unchanging Beloved
Love's Arithmetic
Beauty's Arithmetic
The Valley
Ballade of the Bees of Trebizond
Broken Tryst
The Rival
The Quarrel
Lovers
Shadows
After Tibullus
A Warning
Primum Mobile
The Last Tryst
The Heart on the Sleeve
At Her Feet
Reliquiae
Love's Proud Farwell
The Rose Has Left the Garden

II

The Gardens of Adonis
Nature the Healer
Love Eternal
The Loveliest Face and the Wild Rose
As in the Woodland I Walk
To a Mountain Spring
Noon
A Rainy Day
In the City
Country Largesse
Morn
The Source
Autumn
The Rose in Winter
The Frozen Stream
Winter Magic
A Lover's Universe
To the Golden Wife
Buried Treasure
The New Husbandman
Paths that Wind
The Immortal Gods

III

Ballade of Woman
The Magic Flower
Ballade of Love's Cloister
An Old Love Letter
Too Late
The Door Ajar
Chipmunk
Ballade of the Dead Face that Never Dies
The End of Laughter
The Song that Lasts
The Broker of Dreams

IV

At the Sign of the Lyre
To Madame Jumel
To a Beautiful Old Lady
To Lucy Hinton; December 19, 1921

V

OTHER MATTERS, SACRED AND PROFANE

The World's Musqueteer: To Marshal Foch
We Are With France
Satan: 1920
Under Which King?
Man, the Destroyer
The Long Purposes of God
Ballade to a Departing God
Ballade of the Absent Guest
Tobacco Next
Ballade of the Paid Puritan
The Overworked Ghost
The Valiant Girls
Not Sour Grapes
Ballade of Reading Bad Books
Ballade of the Making of Songs
Ballade of Running Away with Life
To a Contemner of the Past