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    Embers, Complete

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    "Embers, Complete" by Gilbert Parker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN4064066214296
    Embers, Complete
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    Gilbert Parker

    Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.

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      Embers, Complete - Gilbert Parker

      Gilbert Parker

      Embers, Complete

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066214296

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      PROEM

      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

      OPEN THY GATE

      SUMMER IS COME

      WAS IT SOME GOLDEN STAR?

      I HEARD THE DESERT CALLING

      THE FORGOTTEN WORD

      WHAT WILL IT MATTER?

      THE COURIER STAR

      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

      SUZON

      MY LITTLE TENDER HEART

      THE MEN OF THE NORTH

      THE CROWNING

      CLOSE UP

      W. E. H.

      WHEN BLOWS THE WIND

      DOLLY

      LIFE’S SWEET WAGES

      TO THE VALLEY

      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 MAID

      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

      PHYLLIS

      BAIRNIE

      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 DAKOON

      THERE IS SORROW ON THE SEA

      THE AUSTRALIAN STOCKRIDER

      THE BRIDGE OF THE HUNDRED SPANS

      NELL LATORE

      INTRODUCTION

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      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 admirers, and such singers as Mrs. Henschel helped to make Mr. Foote’s music loved by thousands, and conferred something more than an ephemeral acceptance of the author’s words.

      When thou comest to the safe tent of the good comrade,

      abide there till thy going forth with a stedfast mind; and

      if, at the hospitable fire, thou hast learned the secret of a

      heart, thou shalt keep it holy, as the North Wind the

      trouble of the Stars.

      PROEM

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      And the Angel said:

      "What hast thou for all thy travail—

      what dost thou bring with thee out

      of the dust of the world?"

      And the man answered:

      Behold, I bring one perfect yesterday!

      And the Angel questioned:

      "Hast thou then no to-morrow?

      Hast thou no hope?"

      And the man replied:

      "Who am I that I should hope!

      Out of all my life I have been granted one

      sheaf of memory."

      And the Angel said:

      Is this all!

      And the man answered:

      "Of all else was I robbed by the way:

      but Memory was hidden safely

      in my heart—the world found it not."

      ROSLEEN

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      "She’s the darlin’ of the parish, she’s the pride of

      Inniskillen;

      ‘Twould make your heart lep up to see her trippin’

      down the glen;

      There’s not a lad of life and fame that wouldn’t take

      her shillin’

      And inlist inside her service-did ye hear her laughin’

      then?

      Did ye see her with her hand in mine the day that

      Clancy married?

      Ah, darlin’, how we footed it-the grass it was so

      green!

      And when the neighbours wandered home, I was the

      guest that tarried,

      An hour plucked from Paradise—come back to me,

      Rosleen!

      Across the seas, beyand the hills, by lovely Inniskillen,

      The rigiment come marchin’—I hear the call once

      more

      Shure, a woman’s but a woman—so I took the Sergeant’s

      shillin’,

      For the pride o’ me was hurted—shall I

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