Pike County Ballads

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Title: Pike County Ballads and Other Poems
Author: John Hay
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0. START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, PIKE
COUNTY BALLADS ETC ***
This etext was produced by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset.
PIKE COUNTY BALLADS and other poems by John Hay.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION by Henry Morley.
POEMS BY JOHN HAY.
THE PIKE COUNTY BALLADS.
JIM BLUDSO
LITTLE BREECHES
BANTY TIM
THE
MYSTERY OF GILGAL
GOLYER
THE PLEDGE AT
SPUNKY POINT
WANDERLIEDER.
SUNRISE IN THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE
THE SPHINX
OF THE TUILERIES
THE SURRENDER OF SPAIN
THE
PRAYER OF THE ROMANS
THE CURSE OF HUNGARY

THE MONKS OF BASLE
THE ENCHANTED SHIRT
A
WOMAN'S LOVE
ON PITZ LANGUARD
BOUDOIR
PROPHECIES
A TRIUMPH OF ORDER
ERNST OF
EDELSHEIM
MY CASTLE IN SPAIN
SISTER SAINT LUKE
NEW AND OLD.
MILES KEOGH'S HORSE
THE ADVANCE-GUARD

LOVE'S PRAYER
CHRISTINE
EXPECTATION
TO
FLORA
A HAUNTED ROOM
DREAMS
THE LIGHT OF
LOVE
QUAND MEME
WORDS
THE STIRRUP-CUP
A
DREAM OF BRIC-A-BRAC
LIBERTY
THE WHITE FLAG

THE LAW OF DEATH

MOUNT TABOR
RELIGION AND

DOCTRINE
SINAI AND CALVARY
THE VISION OF ST.
PETER
ISRAEL
THE CROWS AT WASHINGTON

REMORSE
ESSE QUAM VIDERI
WHEN THE BOYS COME
HOME
LESE-AMOUR
NORTHWARD
IN THE
FIRELIGHT
IN A GRAVEYARD
THE PRAIRIE

CENTENNIAL
A WINTER NIGHT
STUDENT-SONG

HOW IT HAPPENED
GOD'S VENGEANCE
TOO LATE

LOVE'S DOUBT
LAGRIMAS
ON THE BLUFF
UNA

"THROUGH THE LONG DAYS AND YEARS"
A
PHYLACTERY
BLONDINE
DISTICHES
REGARDANT

GUY OF THE TEMPLE
TRANSLATIONS.
THE WAY TO HEAVEN
COUNTESS JUTTA
A BLESSING

TO THE YOUNG
THE GOLDEN CALF
THE AZRA

GOOD AND BAD LUCK
L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE
AMOR
MYSTICUS
INTRODUCTION.
Pike County Ballads and other poems in this volume by Colonel John
Hay represent in the best manner the spirit of our strong and
independent sister-land across the Atlantic. Pike County Ballads do full
justice to the raw material in the United States, and show a loyal temper
in the rough. The other pieces show how the love of freedom speaks
through finer spirits of the land, and, dealing with realities, can turn a
life of action into music.
Colonel Hay has lived always in vigorous relation with the full life of
the people whose best mind his poems represent. He is descended from
a Scottish soldier, a John Hay, who, at the beginning of the last century,
left his country to take service under the Elector-Palatine, and whose
son went afterwards with his family to settle among the Kentucky
pioneers. Dr. Charles Hay was the father of John Hay the poet, who
was born on the 8th of October 1838, in the heart of the United States,

at Salem in Indiana. When twenty years old he graduated at the
neighbouring Brown University, where his fellow-students valued his
skill as a writer. Then he studied for the Bar, and he was called to the
Bar three years later, at Springfield, Illinois.
At Springfield, Abraham Lincoln practised as a barrister. Shrewd,
lively, earnest, honest, he grudged help to a rogue. In a criminal case,
when evidence threw unexpected light upon a client's character,
Abraham Lincoln said suddenly to his junior, "Swett, the man is guilty;
you defend him, I can't." In another case, when a piece of rascality in
his client came out, Abraham Lincoln left his junior in possession of
the case and went to his hotel. To the judge, who sent for him, he
replied that he had found his hands were very dirty, and had gone away
to get them clean. Almost immediately after John Hay's call to the Bar
at Springfield he was chosen by Abraham Lincoln, newly made
President, to go with him to Washington. At Washington, Hay acted as
Assistant-Secretary, and was also, in the Civil War, aide-de-camp to
President Lincoln. Throughout that momentous struggle he was
actively employed on the side of the North at the headquarters and on
the field of battle. He served for a time under Generals Hunter and
Gillmore, became a Colonel in the army of the North, and served also
as Assistant Adjutant-General. John Hay had in that struggle three
brothers and two brothers-in-law serving also in