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Excerpt from Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard

This I did from the understanding, shared with others, that Mr. Stoddard had himself collected and arranged them for this purpose. No such book, how ever, was among his effects, nor has any trace of it been found.

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Excerpt from Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard

Say, Charlie

Say, Charlie, our Charlie, say,
What of the night? A-lo-ha! Hail!
What noonful sea? What restful sail?
Where tent you, Bedouin, to-day?
O generous green leaves of our tree,
What fruitful first young buoyant year!
But bleak winds blow; the leaves are sere,
And listless rustle two or three.

Say, Charlie, where is Bret and Twain?
Shy Prentice, and the former few?
You spoke and spoke as one who knew -
Now, Charlie, speak us once again!
The night-wolf prowls; we guess, we grope,
But day is night and night despair,
And doubt seems some unuttered prayer,
And hope seems hoping against hope.

But, Charlie, you had faith, and you,
Gentlest of all God's gentlemen,
You said you knew and surely knew -
Now speak, and speak as spoke you then.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.