The Embers

Gilbert Parker
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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
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