Songs Of The Road

Foreword

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Foreword

If it were not for the hillocks

You'd think little of the hills;

The rivers would seem tiny

If it were not for the rills.

If you never saw the brushwood

You would under-rate the trees;

And so you see the purpose

Of such little rhymes as these.

Crowborough

1911

About Arthur Conan Doyle

Text

Summary

Foreword

Hymn of Empire

Sir Nigel's Song

The Arab Steed

A Post Impressionist

Empire Builders

The Groom's Encore

The Bay Horse

The Outcasts

The End

1902-1909

The Wanderer

Bendy's Sermon

Philosophic Verses

Compensation

The Banner of Progress

Hope

Religio Medici

Man's Limitation

Mind and Matter

Darkness

Miscellaneous Verses

A Woman's Love

The North Sea

December's Snow

Shakespeare's Expostulation

The Empire

A Voyage

The Orphanage

Sexagenarius Loquitur

Night Voices

The Message

The Echo

Advice To A Young Author

A Lilt of the Road

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