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 (e) and sometimes it is e-grave (e). 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

ANDRE 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

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Jongleur Strayed by Richard Le Gallienne
• 2: This golden vehicle of Richard Le Gallienne
• 3: Thou hast drunk how hast thou drunk
• 4: SORCERY Face with the forest eyes
• 5: To catch her loveliness as she doth pass
• 6: ANIMA MUNDI Let all things vanish
• 7: They croon and croon The one word Rest
• 8: BROKEN TRYST Waiting in the woodland
• 9: Roses thou gavest shalt thou not bring rue
• 10: That thou mayst slake Thy love of lilies
• 11: Our happy paradise fore doomed
• 12: And breasts of myrrh Under my feet
• 13: The gardens of Adonis bloom again
• 14: THE LOVELIEST FACE AND THE WILD ROSE The loveliest face
• 15: AS IN THE WOODLAND I WALK As in the woodland I walk
• 16: A RAINY DAY The beauty of this rainy day
• 17: This largesse from the hills and streams
• 18: Murmuring your song Strangely still and tranced
• 19: All summer in my sweetheart doth abide
• 20: And took to other furrows my laughing toil
• 21: Kneeling within that cloister of old dreams
• 22: THE DOOR AJAR My door is always left ajar
• 23: Half way to your twittering jaws
• 24: Desire Where the Sign swings of the Lyre
• 25: Transformed the simple beauty of a girl
• 26: Then Foch shall lead the dance Marshal of France
• 27: The tyrants laughed from throne to throne
• 28: A formless vapour into nowhere going
• 29: 'Tis not good by but au revoir
• 30: You silly ass Don't make the same mistake again
• 31: Frightens that valiant little form
• 32: Never shall our hearts forget The flower face of Juliet
• 33: From out our sanctuaries Begone and gladly gone