CONTENTS

The Dancing Seal
The Slag
Devil's Edge
The Lilac Tree
The Old Man
The Hare

Thanks are due to the editors of RHYTHM, and THENATION, for leave to reprint some of these tales.

FIRES

THE DANCING SEAL

When we were building Skua Light--

The first men who had lived a night

Upon that deep-sea Isle--

As soon as chisel touched the stone,

The friendly seals would come ashore;

And sit and watch us all the while,

As though they'd not seen men before;

And so, poor beasts, had never known

Men had the heart to do them harm.

They'd little cause to feel alarm

With us, for we were glad to find

Some friendliness in that strange sea;

Only too pleased to let them be

And sit as long as they'd a mind

To watch us: for their eyes were kind

Like women's eyes, it seemed to me.

So, hour on hour, they sat: I think

They liked to hear the chisels' clink:

And when the boy sang loud and clear,

They scrambled closer in to hear;

And if he whistled sweet and shrill,

The queer beasts shu

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