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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Song of the Stone Wall, by Helen Keller
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Title: The Song of the Stone Wall
Author: Helen Keller
Release Date: April 20, 2004 [EBook #12093]
Language: English
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Produced by Jamie Taylor in memory of Helen Keller.
THE SONG OF
THE STONE WALL
BY
HELEN KELLER
1910
Copyright, 1909, 1910.
Published October, 1910.
DEDICATION
When I began “The Song of the Stone Wall,” Dr. Edward Everett Hale was still among us, and it was my intention to dedicate the poem to him if it should be deemed worthy of publication. I fancied that he would like it; for he loved the old walls and the traditions that cling about them.
As I tried to image the men who had built the walls long ago, it seemed to me that Dr. Hale was the living embodiment of whatever was heroic in the founders of New England. He was a great American. He was also a great Puritan. Was not the zeal of his ancestors upon his lips, and their courage in his heart? Had they not bequeathed to him their torch-like faith, their patient fervor of toil and their creed of equality?
But his bright spirit had inherited no trace of their harshness and gloom. The windows of his soul opened t