The Voice of the Valley

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The Voice of the Valley (1897)
by Yone Noguchi
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The Voice of the
Valley

Yone Noguchi

The Voice of the Valley

The Voice of the Valley


By


Yone Noguchi

Author of "Seen and Unseen"


Introduction by Chas. Warren Stoddard

Illustration by William Keith



William Doxey

At the Sign of the Lark

San Francisco

Copyright, 1897

William Doxey

THE DOXEY PRESS

To
Nelly E. W. Smith

Pray, thou who art the first to touch the heart to these lines, be the last to read alone, and bless me when the world has forgotten me!

Contents


Introduction 9


The Voice of the Valley
Song of Day in Yosemite Valley 13
Song of Night in Yosemite Valley 21
In the Valley 27
The Night Reverie in the Forest 31


The Song of Songs which is Noguchi's
I Hail Myself as I do Homer 41
Hymn of Summer 45
Adieu 49

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1947, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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