THE WORKS OF

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

LYRA HEROICA

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

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A Book of Verse for Boys

SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,
To all the sensual world proclaim
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1921

COPYRIGHT

GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

July 1891.

TO WALTER BLAIKIE

ARTIST PRINTER

MY PART IN THIS BOOK

W. E. H.