The Song of the Lark

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THE SONG OF
THE LARK

BY

WILLA SIBERT CATHER

"It was a wond'rous lovely storm that drove me!"
Lenau's "Don Juan."

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY WILLA SIBERT CATHER

Published October 1915

                TO
        Isabelle McClung

              On uplands,
             At morning,
The world was young, the winds were free;
             A garden fair,
             In that blue desert air,
Its guest invited me to be.

CONTENTS

Part I.	Friends of Childhood	1
II.	The Song of the Lark	159
III.	Stupid Faces	247
IV.	The Ancient People	293
V.	Doctor Archie's Venture	343
VI.	Kronborg	383
	Epilogue	481

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.

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