EBOOK THE SONG OF THE STONE WALL ***
Produced by Jamie Taylor in memory of Helen Keller.
THE SONG OF
THE STONE WALL
BY
HELEN KELLER
1910
Copyright, 1909, 1910.
_Published October, 1910_.
DEDICATION
When I began "The Song of the Stone Wall," Dr. Edward Everett Hale
was still among us, and it was my intention to dedicate the poem
to him if it should be deemed worthy of publication. I fancied that
he would like it; for he loved the old walls and the traditions that
cling about them.
As I tried to image the men who had built the walls long ago, it
seemed to me that Dr. Hale was the living embodiment of whatever was
heroic in the founders of New England. He was a great American. He
was also a great Puritan. Was not the zeal of his ancestors upon his
lips, and their courage in his heart? Had they not bequeathed to him
their torch-like faith, their patient fervor of toil and their creed
of equality?
But his bright spirit had inherited no trace of their harshness and
gloom.
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