THE CALL OF THE HOUR
page: [][View Page []]"OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID"
page: [1][View Page [1]]THE CALL OF THE HOUR
ByLEWIS ALBERT HARDING
WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BYEVA M. TRUESDELL
WICHITA, KANSAS THE SUNFLOWER PUBLISHING COMPANY 122 NORTH MAIN STREET 1913
COPYRIGHT
THE SUNFLOWER PUBLISHING COMPANY
WICHITA, KANSAS
1913
PUBLISHED MAY, 1913
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON, ENGLAND
THE HOLLENBECK PRESS, INDIANAPOLIS, U.S.A.
page: [3][View Page [3]]DEDICATION
page: [5][View Page [5]]To all witty men and splendid boys and merry girls and brilliant women and to every noble character, this little story, wrought for love and faith and told in carol and tale, is dedicated.
page: [7][View Page [7]]CONTENTS
page: 9[View Page 9]CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS13
- PREFACE 19
- I
PROEM 29 - II
THE GREAT FOUNDATION 31 - III
THE BEAUTIFUL FACE 47 - IV
THE PLOWBOY'S EVENING SONG 55 - V THE IMPERIAL BOOK 65
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- VI
NOT GUILTY 73 - VII
THE CHOICEST FLOWER 87 - VIII
MORNING-GLORIES 99 - IX
SWEETLY O WIND OF MY HOMELAND 107 - X
THE CALLING OF KNYPHAUSEN 115 - XI
THE GREAT BIRTHDAY 161 - XII
CONCLUSIONS173
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
page: 13[View Page 13]LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- I WONDER WHO IT IS THAT REALLY KNOWS JUST WHO OLD SANTA REALLY IS
- PLANTED DEEPLY IN THE SOLID EARTH THE GREAT FOUNDATION STANDS FIRM AND STRONG 33
- AT LENGTH HE SPOKE OF HIS AUNT AGAIN AND SAID SHE GAVE HIM SOM MONEY 49
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- THERE IS NO REST TILL THE MAIDEN'S DINNER CALL 57
- "AMONG THE BOOKS I HAVE," SAID A HAPPY MAN ON HIS BIRTHDAY, "THERE IS ONE WHICH I TREASURE ESPECIALLY" 67
- ANON YIP SE IS TRAIPSING DOWN THE STREET AT A 'RISKY GAIT' AND CASTS HIS CROSS-CUT GLANCE ASKANCE 75
- ABOUT THE DELL THE WILD BIRDS page: 15[View Page 15] SING AND NEAR THE GOLDEN COWSLIPS SPRING 89
- WITH GLORY SWEET AND TENDER, THE BLUSHING SUNRISE TREADS THE DEW 101
- PAUSE NOW AND WHISPER A MESSAGE BROUGHT FROM THE OLD SCENES AT HOME 109
- AND A SMILE, BROAD, LONG AND MELLOW, WOULD SPREAD OVER MR. KNYPHAUSEN'S FACE 117
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- AND LO, THE WISE MEN SAW DESCENDED IN EASTERN SKIES, AN ASTRAL LIGHT 163
- I KEPT A WISE SILENCE AND A PATIENT SMILE AS HE RELATED THE MYSTERY 175
PREFACE
page: 19[View Page 19]PREFACE
The aim of this book is to afford some pleasure in reading the volume as well as to convey the meaning and message suggested in its title. The volume contains just a dozen articles including five sketches in prose and poems to the symbolic number of seven.
Five of the series of articles embraced in this work appeared originally in various magazines. Of page: 20[View Page 20]the poems, "The Great Birthday" was printed first in pamphlet form, and in December, 1905, was again published in a magazine edition of THE DAILY STUDENT of Indiana University, under the title, "The First Christmas."
A second pamphlet edition of this poem in gift form was published in 1910 by The McCormick Press, of Wichita, Kansas. The poem was spoken of kindly by James Whitcomb Riley to whom page: 21[View Page 21]the second edition of "The First Christmas" was dedicated.
In November, 1909, "The Choicest Flower" was published in THE TEACHERS JOURNAL, of (Marion,) Indiana. "The Great Foundation" was first printed the same year in the December number of THE MESSENGER, of (Wichita,) Kansas. The "Proem" appeared in the KANSAS MAGAZINE for December, 1909, under the title, "I Wonder Who Knows;" page: 22[View Page 22]and the sketch, "Not Guilty," appeared in the same magazine, in March, 1910.
I am indebted to the kindness of the proprietors of those various publications for permission to reprint those selections. The rest of the articles included in this volume have never before been offered to print and are more or less new.
LEWIS ALBERT HARDING.
COLUMBUS, INDIANA,
April 14, 1913.
THE CALL OF THE HOUR
