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LIVING ENGLISH POETS: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

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Living English Poets:

Arthur Conan Doyle

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LIVING ENGLISH POETS: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

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Living English Poets: A. Conan Doyle

Dr. A. Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He went to school at Stonyhurst in

Lancashire, then studied in Germany, and finally completed his medical education at the

University of Edinburgh. He has been an extensive traveler, visiting Africa, the Arctic seas, and

many parts of Europe. His first story was accepted when he was nineteen years old, and his first

book, A Study in Scarlet, was sold outright for *25. Then came Micah Clarke, The Sign of the

Four, The White Company -- and so his reputation as one of the most popular English novelists

was firmly established. It is said that Dr. Doyle's detective stories were what first brought him to

the attention of Americans. That they rank with the best ever written is generally recognized.

Although chiefly known as a story-teller, Dr. Doyle has been an occasional contributor of verse

to the leading English and American magazines for years. A collection of verse was published in

England several years ago and republished in this country, in 1898, by Doubleday, McClure &

Co., under the title Songs of Action. Many of his poems have never appeared in book form. The

vivid imagination, clearness of expression, and intense interest that distinguish his prose are

marked characteristics of his verse. The selections reprinted here are chiefly from the American

edition of Songs of Action.

MASTER.

Master went a-hunting,

When the leaves were falling;

We saw him on the bridle path,

We heard him gaily calling.

"Oh, master, master, come you back,

For I have dreamed a dream so black!"

A glint of steel from bit and heel,

The chestnut cantered faster,

A red flash seen amid the green,

And so good-by to master.

Master came from hunting,

Two silent comrades bore him;

His eyes were dim, his face was white,

The mare was led before him.

"Oh, master, master, is it thus

That you have come again to us?"

I held my lady's ice-cold hand,

They bore the hurdle past her;

Why should they go so soft and slow?

It matters not to master.

A HUNTING MORNING.

LIVING ENGLISH POETS: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

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Put the saddle on the mare,

For the wet winds blow;

There's winter in the air,

And autumn all below.

For the red leaves are flying

And the red bracken dying,

And the red fox lying

Where the oziers grow.

Put the bridle on the mare,

For my blood runs chill;

And my heart, it is there,

On the heather-tufted hill,

With the gray skies o'er us,

And the long-drawn chorus

Of running pack before us

From the find to the kill.

Then lead round the mare,

For it's time that we began,

And away with thought and care,

Save to live and be a man,

While the keen air is blowing,

And the huntsman halloing,

And the black mare going

As the black mare can.

THE BLIND ARCHER.

Little boy Love drew his bow at a chance,

Shooting down at the ballroom floor;

He hit an old chaperon watching the dance,

And oh! but he wounded her sore.

"Hey, Love, you couldn't mean that!

Hi, Love, what would you be at?

No word would he say,

But he flew on his way,

For the little boy's busy, and how could he stay?

Little boy Love drew a shaft for sport

At the soberest club in Pall Mall;

He winged an old veteran drinking his port,

And down that old veteran fell.

"Hey, Love, you mustn't do that!

Hi, Love, what would you be at?

This cannot be right!

It's ludicrous quite!"

But it's no use to argue, for Love's out of sight.

A sad-faced young clerk in a cell all apart

Was planning a celibate vow;

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