FAREWELL BY THE SAME AUTHOR A GLOUCESTERSHIRE LAD AT HOME AND ABROAD. [_Sixth Impression._ GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIENDS: Poems from a German Prison Camp. [_Third Impression._ DUCKS, AND OTHER VERSES. COMRADES IN CAPTIVITY: A Record of Life in Seven German Prisons. Illustrated by C. E. B. Bernard. SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD. FAREWELL BY F. W. HARVEY AUTHOR OF “A GLOUCESTERSHIRE LAD” “GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIENDS” ETC., ETC. LONDON SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD. 1921 PREFACE In spite of all the soulful utterances of people comfortably off, economic independence remains the first condition of happiness. This is not to say that people aren’t great fools for preferring law to literature. It is rather to imply that a poet who can do both is a fool if _he_ does not. I am not a fool. Farewell! F. W. H. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author desires to acknowledge gratefully permissions to reprint certain of these poems granted by the editors of _The Spectator_, _The Athenæum_, _The London Mercury_, _The Nation_, _The Woman’s Leader_, _The Gloucestershire Chronicle_ and _The Gloucestershire Journal_. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 5 NATURE POEMS PRAYERS: I. 11 ” II. 12 ” III. 13 ” IV. 14 THE HOLLOW LAND 15 ON BIRDLIP 16 OUT OF THE CITY 17 A SONG 18 MAY-FLOOD 18 BIG THINGS AND SMALL 19 AFTER LONG WANDERING 20 THE MOON 22 THE WIND’S GRIEF 23 A WINDY NIGHT 24 RIDDLE CUM RUDDLE 25 GLOUCESTERSHIRE FROM THE TRAIN 26 LASSINGTON 27 JEALOUSY 28 ELVERS 29 JOHN HELPS 32 LOVE POEMS THE GOLDEN SNAKE 33 IN A CATHEDRAL 34