Two Foemen, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I have frequently appended dates to the lyrics, these referring to the year of their original creation For instance, the sonnet Redcar: 1899 (inserted here because of its suitability) was written in my boyhood, Spring: 1911 in a North German town. The latter is a contraction of therugged ballad-metre 4: 3 into and I have included it because it was upon this that I based the metre of the Greifswald of Two Fishers, verses whose date related to the time of the occurrence of an experience. As in Two Fishers, the lyrics here represent merely a selection. The poet always hopes for a sudden extension of his circle of readers but this denied him, publication usually helps to ensure the existence of his work, if its quality be in any way durable. In my own case the hazard of a wandering changing life has not been entirely favourable to literary preservation. Some of my work has been lost, some I have deliberately destroyed but now I would hold fast what I have.

I h0pe the reader will apply the title Two F aernen to the greater part of the contents, and not merely to the ballad epic. Society, to-day, has pitched camp on two Opposing hills, whether it knows it or not. The dominion of the Earth should belong to the honourable, the gifted and the brave, to those who unite the Virtues and no one faction - nay I not even a majority - should have the power to exploit or deceive humanity for the furtherance of its own grotesque or insolent aims.

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