BY NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY
GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH
ENTERS INTO HEAVEN
ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING
THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY
ADVENTURES WHILE PREACHING
THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY
NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY
NEW YORK—MITCHELL KENNERLEY 1914
COPYRIGHT 1914 BY
MITCHELL KENNERLEY
Printed in America
Dedicated to
Miss Sara Teasdale
CONTENTS
Thanks are due the Crowell PublishingCompany for permission to reprint the proclamationsfrom Farm and Fireside withwhich the book ends.
Adventures While Preachingthe Gospel of Beauty
I
I Start on My Walk
As some of the readers of this account areaware, I took a walk last summer frommy home town, Springfield, Illinois, acrossIllinois, Missouri, and Kansas, up and downColorado and into New Mexico. One of themost vivid little episodes of the trip, thatcame after two months of walking, I wouldlike to tell at this point. It was in southernColorado. It was early morning. Aroundthe cliff, with a boom, a rattle and a bang,appeared a gypsy wagon. On the front seatwas a Romany, himself dressed inconspicuously,[10]but with his woman more bedeckedthan Carmen. She wore the bangles andspangles of her Hindu progenitors. Thewoman began to shout at me, I could notdistinguish just what. The two seemed tothink this was the gayest morning the sunever shone upon. They came faster andfaster, then, suddenly, at