Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes:

Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_
in the original text.
Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals.
Illustrations have been moved so they do not break up stanzas.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

RHYMES OF OUR VALLEY
CHRISTOPHER CRICKET ON CATS
THE LIMERATOMY
WINGS AND OTHER WAR RHYMES

_The tinder-brush has caught the spark, the temples of the night,
Their purple columns towering high, glow in the amber light._
(“BY SCARLET TORCH AND BLADE.”)]

BY SCARLET TORCH AND BLADE

BY ANTHONY EUWER

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

“_A four-league stretch is burning now—
The cavalcade of death
Moves on with scarlet torch and blade
And with a scarlet breath._”

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright, 1923
by
Anthony Euwer

Second printing, January, 1926

Made in the United States of America

TO THE MEMORY OF

MY SISTER
MARIAN

WHOSE NEVER FAILING ENCOURAGEMENT
WENT FAR TOWARD THE MAKING OF
THIS BOOK.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

To all the joy that colors give beneath the
sun and moon; to all pleasurable sounds and
wholesome odors of the earth and air and sea;
to the warmth and glow of genial firesides and
to the bite of winter winds; to the rain upon
the lichens; to the majesty of mountains and the
awfulness of high places; to the darkness of
caves and the friendliness of far-off trails;
to every furry thing—the shy, the dumb, and
whatsoever creature has found expression in his
fancy; to both the nobler and the meaner natures
of men; to life’s laughter and life’s tears and
to all fruitful experience; to these sources, for
whatsoever good may here be found, the author
makes acknowledgment.

A number of the rhymes in the present volume
have previously appeared in the Associated Press,
Judge, Leslie’s, the Oregon Sunday Journal, and
The Open Road. For permission to reprint the
drawings the author is indebted to the publishers
of Scribner’s Magazine.

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