THE DEATH OF THE SCHARNHORST AND OTHER POEMS by ARCH ALFRED McKILLEN [Illustration] VANTAGE PRESS, Inc. NEW YORK Copyright, 1952, by Arch Alfred McKillen _Manufactured in the United States of America_ _To_ L.R.D., EM 1/c, U. S. Navy Killed in action, Pearl Harbor, T. H. December 7, 1941 _Smile a little, lad,_ _For when you smile_ _There is no sleep._ _How can there then be Death?_ The Chicago _Sun_ has kindly granted permission to reprint the poem “The Litany of Pearl Harbor,” which it published on December 7, 1942, in June Provines’ column CONTENTS _Page_ The Bird, the Lad and Me 1 The War in Spain 1 It Rains Tonight 2 While Drums Are Rolling 2 Apollo 3 Fountain of Loveliness 4 Highway Number 66 5 Dirge for the _Squalus_ 6 Echo Canyon 7 Fragment 8 We Hang upon a Scaffold 8 I Looked into Your Eyes 9 Of This Great Voiceless Love 9 I Would Have Brought You Fire 10 Too Much of Life 10 Lone Cello 11 Apocalypse 11 The Old Sea Wall 12 The Midnight Horseman 13 Lonely Heart 14 Dreams 15 The Bugles Called 15 Morning Guard 16 When Kilmer Wrote of Trees 17 Wild Geese 17