The Embers

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Title: Embers, Complete
Author: Gilbert Parker
Release Date: August, 2004 [EBook #6271]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on November 21, 2002]
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Language: English
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EMBERS, Complete
By Gilbert Parker
CONTENTS
Volume 1.?EMBERS?ROSLEEN?WILL YOU COME BACK HOME??MARY CALLAGHAN AND ME?KILDARE?YOU'LL TRAVEL FAR AND WIDE?FARCALLADEN RISE?GIVE ME THE LIGHT HEART?WHERE SHALL WE BETAKE US??NO MAN'S LAND?AT SEA?ATHENIAN?EYES LIKE THE SEA?UNDER THE CLIFF?OPEN TRY GATE?SUMMER IS COME?O FLOWER OF ALL THE WORLD?WAS IT SOME GOLDEN STAR??I HEARD THE DESERT CALLING?THE FORGOTTEN WORD?WHAT WILL IT MATTER??THE COURIER STAR?CONTENTS?CONTENTS?THE WORLD IN MAKING?HEW?O SON OF MAN?AT THE END OF THE WORLD?WAYFARERS?THE RED PATROL?THE YELLOW SWAN?THE HEART OF THE PIONEER?THE NORTH TRAIL?ALONE?THE SCARLET HILLS?THE WOODSMAN LOVER?QUI VIVE?THE LITTLE HOUSE?SPINNING?FLY AWAY, MY HEART?SUZON?MY LITTLE TENDER HEART?THE MEN OF THE NORTH?THE CROWNING?CLOSE UP?W. E. H.?WHEN BLOWS THE WIND
Volume 2.?DOLLY?LIFE'S SWEET WAGES?TO THE VALLEY?THE LILY FLOWER?LOVE IN HER COLD GRAVE LIES?GRANADA, GRANADA?THE NEW APHRODITE?AN ANCIENT PLEDGE?THE TRIBUTE OF KING HATH?THERE IS AN ORCHARD?HEART OF THE WORLD?EPITAPHS?THE BEGGAR?THE MAID?THE FOOL?THE FIGHTER?THE SEA-REAPERS?THE WATCHER?THE WAKING?WHEN ONE FORGETS?ALOES AND MYRRH?IN WASTE PLACES?LAST OF ALL?AFTER?REMEDIAL?THE TWILIGHT OF LOVE?IRREVOCABLE?THE LAST DREAM?WAITING?IN MAYTIME?INSIDE THE BAR?THE CHILDREN?LITTLE GARAINE?TO A LITTLE CHILD?L'EMPEREUR, MORT?PHYLLIS?BAIRNIE
Volume 3.?IN CAMDEN TOWN?JEAN?A MEMORY?IN CAMP AT JUNIPER COVE?JUNIPER COVE TWENTY YEARS AFTER?LISTENING?NEVERTHELESS?ISHMAEL?OVER THE HILLS?THE DELIVERER?THE DESERT ROAD?A SON OF THE NILE?A FAREWELL FROM THE HAREM?AN ARAB LOVE SONG?THE CAMEL-DRIVER TO HIS CAMEL?THE TALL DABOON?THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA?THE AUSTRALIAN STOCKRIDER?THE BRIDGE OF THE HUNDRED SPANS?NELL LATORE
INTRODUCTION
I had not intended that Embers should ever be given to the public, but friends whose judgment I respect have urged me to include it in the subscription edition at least, and with real reluctance I have consented. It was a pleasure to me to have one piece of work of mine which made no bid for pence or praise; but if that is a kind of selfishness, perhaps unnecessary, since no one may wish to read the verses, I will now free myself from any chance of reproach. This much I will say to soothe away my own compunctions, that the book will only make the bid for popularity or consideration with near a score of others, and not separately, and that my responsibility is thus modified. The preface to Embers says all that need be said about a collection which is, on the whole, merely a book of youth and memory and impressionism in verse. At least it was all spontaneous; it was not made to order on any page of it, and it is the handful left from very many handfuls destroyed. Since the first edition (intended only for my personal friends) was published I have written "Rosleen," "Where Shall We Betake Us?" "Granada," "Mary Callaghan and Me," "The Crowning" (on the Coronation of King Edward VII), the fragment "Kildare" and "I Heard the Desert Calling"; and I have also included others like "The Tall Dakoon" and "The Red Patrol," written over twenty years ago. "Mary Callaghan and Me" has been set to music by Mr. Max Muller, and has made many friends, and "The Crowning" was the Coronation ode of 'The People', which gave a prize, too ample I think, for the best musical setting of the lines. Many of the other pieces in 'Embers' have been set to music by distinguished composers like Sir Edward Elgar, who has made a song-cycle of several, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Mr. Arthur Foote, Mrs. Amy Woodforde Finden, Robert Somerville, and others. The first to have musical setting was "You'll Travel Far and Wide," to which in 1895 Mr. Arthur Foote gave fame as "An Irish Folk Song." Like "O Flower of All the World," by Mrs. Amy Woodforde Finden, it has had a world of admirers, and such singers as Mrs. Henschel helped to make Mr. Foote's music loved by thousands, and conferred something