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TITLE: BALLADS OF A BOHEMIAN
AUTHOR: ROBERT W. SERVICE
EBOOK: E01196 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

Ballads of a Bohemian
Robert W. Service [British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.]

Author of "The Spell of the Yukon", "Ballads of a Cheechako",
"Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", etc.

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[Note on accents:  Due to the great number of French words used in this text,
accents are marked as followed:  "/", "\", "^", or "," immediately *follows*
the character it accents.  "Cafe/", "fe^te", "cha^teau", "garc,on",
and "me^le/e" are given without accents as they have been absorbed
into the English language.  "Finiste\re", "Fourrage\re" and "mo^me"
are given without accents due to excessive repetition.]

Ballads of a Bohemian

By Robert W. Service

CONTENTS

Prelude

    BOOK ONE
     SPRING

  I

My Garret
Julot the ~Apache~

  II

~L'Escargot D'Or~
It Is Later Than You Think
Noctambule

  III

Insomnia
Moon Song
The Sewing-Girl

  IV

Lucille
On the Boulevard
Facility

  V

Golden Days
The Joy of Little Things
The Absinthe Drinkers

    BOOK TWO
  EARLY SUMMER

  I

The Release
The Wee Shop
The Philistine and the Bohemian

  II

The Bohemian Dreams
A Domestic Tragedy
The Pencil Seller

  III

Fi-Fi in Bed
Gods in the Gutter
The Death of Marie Toro

  IV

The Bohemian
The Auction Sale
The Joy of Being Poor

  V

My Neighbors
  Room 4:  The Painter Chap
  Room 6:  The Little Workgirl
  Room 5:  The Concert Singer
  Room 7:  The Coco-Fiend

    BOOK THREE
    LATE SUMMER

  I

The Philanderer
The ~Petit Vieux~
My Masterpiece
My Book
My Hour

  II

A Song of Sixty-Five
Teddy Bear
The Outlaw
The Walkers

  III

Poor Peter
The Wistful One
If You Had a Friend
The Contented Man
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe

  IV

Finistere
Old David Smail
The Wonderer
Oh, It Is Good

  V

I Have Some Friends
The Quest
The Comforter
The Other One
Catastrophe

    BOOK FOUR
      WINTER

  I

Priscilla
A Casualty
The Blood-Red ~Fourragere~
Jim

  II

Kelly of the Legion
The Three Tommies
The Twa Jocks

  III

His Boys
The Booby-Trap
Bonehead Bill

  IV

A Lapse of Time and a Word of Explanation
Michael
The Wife
Victory Stuff
Was It You?

  V

~Les Grands Mutiles~
  The Sightless Man
  The Legless Man
  The Faceless Man

L'Envoi

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Prelude

~Alas! upon some starry height,
The Gods of Excellence to please,
This hand of mine will never smite
The Harp of High Serenities.
Mere minstrel of the street am I,
To whom a careless coin you fling;
But who, beneath the bitter sky,
Blue-lipped, yet insolent of eye,
Can shrill a song of Spring;
A song of merry mansard days,
The cheery chimney-tops among;
Of rolics and of roundelays
When we were young . . . when we were young;
A song of love and lilac nights,
Of wit, of wisdom and of wine;
Of Folly whirling on the Heights,
Of hunger and of hope divine;
Of Blanche, Suzette and Celestine,

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