AND OTHER RHYMES IN THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
Prose:
A Handy Guide for Beggars
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
The Art of the Moving Picture
Verse:
General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems
The Congo and Other Poems
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in theAmerican Language
It is suggested that those who are interested in a complete view ofthese works should take them in the above order. They are all publishedby The Macmillan Company.
THE GOLDEN WHALES OF CALIFORNIA
AND OTHER RHYMES IN THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
BY
VACHEL LINDSAY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1920,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
TO
ISADORA BENNETT,
CITIZEN OF SPRINGFIELD,
because she helped me to write many of
the pieces, from the Golden Whales
of California to Alexander Campbell,
and because she danced
the Daniel Jazz.
For permission to reprint some of the verses in this volume the authoris indebted to the courtesy of the editors and publishers of TheChicago Daily News, Poetry (Chicago), ContemporaryVerse, The New Republic, The Forum, Books and theBook World of the New York Sun, Others, The Red CrossMagazine, Youth, The Independent, and William StanleyBraithwaite’s anthology entitled “Victory.”
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| PAGE | |
| A Word on California, Photoplays, and Saint Francis | xiii |
| FIRST SECTION | |
| THE LONGER PIECES, WITH INTERLUDES | |
| The Golden Whales of California | 3 |
| Kalamazoo | 11 |
| John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston | 14 |
| Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan | 18 |
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