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    The Silk-Hat Soldier And Other Poems in War Time
    The Silk-Hat Soldier And Other Poems in War Time
    The Silk-Hat Soldier And Other Poems in War Time
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    The Silk-Hat Soldier And Other Poems in War Time

    By Richard le Gallienne

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Silk-Hat Soldier And Other Poems in War Time - Richard le Gallienne

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Silk-Hat Soldier, by Richard le Gallienne

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      Title: The Silk-Hat Soldier

      And Other Poems in War Time

      Author: Richard le Gallienne

      Release Date: September 19, 2006 [EBook #19313]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SILK-HAT SOLDIER ***

      Produced by Jason Isbell, Daniel Griffith and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      THE WORKS OF

      RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

      Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems, Mainly Personal.

      English Poems. Revised.

      Rudyard Kipling: A Criticism.

      George Meredith: Some Characteristics. With a bibliography (much enlarged) by John Lane.

      The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance.

      The Romance of Zion Chapel.

      The Worshipper of the Image: A Tragic Fairy Tale.

      Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies.

      Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Paraphrase from Several Literary Translations. New edition with fifty additional quatrains. With cover design by Will Bradley.

      Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log. (New edition.) 2 vols.

      Prose Fancies. First series. With portrait of the author by Wilson Steer.

      Prose Fancies. Second series.

      Travels in England. New edition.

      New Poems.

      Attitudes and Avowals. With Some Retrospective Reviews.

      The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems.

      THE

      SILK-HAT SOLDIER

      AND OTHER POEMS IN

      WAR TIME

      BY

      RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

      NEW YORK—JOHN LANE COMPANY

      LONDON—JOHN LANE—THE BODLEY HEAD

      MCMXV

      Copyright, 1915,

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