Transcribed from the 1901 David Nutt edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org HAWTHORN AND LAVENDER With Other Verses, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY CONTENTS O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days? shakespeare shakespeare LONDON Published by DAVID NUTT at the Sign of the Phœnix in Long Acre 1901 in Long Acre p. ivFirst Edition printed October 1901 Second Edition printed November 1901 p. iv Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, (late) Printers to Her Majesty Constable p. vDedication p. v Ask me not how they came, These songs of love and death, These dreams of a futile stage, These thumb-nails seen in the street: Ask me not how nor why, But take them for your own, Dear Wife of twenty years, Knowing—O, who so well?— You it was made the man That made these songs of love, Death, and the trivial rest: So that, your love elsewhere, These songs, or bad or good— How should they ever have been? Worthing, July 31, 1901. Worthing p. 1PROLOGUE p. 1
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