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THE PASSING OF THE STORM
AND OTHER POEMS
See page 17
The Passing of the Storm
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
ALFRED CASTNER KING
New YorkChicagoToronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1907, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond St., W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
DEDICATION
TO A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING CLASS, THE PIONEER
PROSPECTORS, WHOSE BRAVERY, INTELLIGENCE AND
INDUSTRY BLAZED THE TRAILS IN THE WESTERN
WILDERNESS FOR ADVANCING CIVILIZATION, AND MADE
POSSIBLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT WEST,
THIS VOLUME IS VERY RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
PREFACE
Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!—Job xix, 23.
Books have, from time immemorial, been the conservatorsof human wisdom, the repositories of information,the mentors of youth and adolescence,the counsellors of manhood, the comfort and companionshipof age.
The experience of an individual, school or era, whencommitted to book form, becomes the common propertyof all succeeding time, and the accumulatedknowledge of the past, transmitted from generationto generation, through the medium of books, may withjustice be regarded as the most valuable of humanheritages.
But they have not always been unmixed blessings;they have both led and misled; they haveelucidated, yet have mystified.
They have dissipated the shadows of ignoranceand superstition, but in some instances have confusedand obscured the searchlight of truth. In theeconomy of hum