(TO M.)

The serenade of a thousand years ago
The song of a hushed lip
Lives forever in the glass of today
Wherein we see the reflection of it
If we but brush away
The cobwebs of a doubting faith.

Published by
MACFADDEN PUBLICATIONS, Inc.
New York

1923
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Copyright, 1923
BY
RUDOLPH VALENTINO

Printed
in U. S. A.
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To J. C. N. G.

MY FRIENDS HERE AND THERE

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{ix}

INTRODUCTION

I can not tell a rondelay
In words of yesterday
I can not tell a couplet
For words come as they may.
I’ll do my best—I’ll try a bit
Of ultra-modern rhyme
And cast aside the shackles
Binding “Once upon a time.”
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PREFACE

TO you,my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword of warning before youperuse the contents of this book. I am not a poet nor a scholar,therefore you shall find neither poems nor prose. Just dreams—DayDreams—a bit of romance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy,not studied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatest ofmasters!... Nature!

While lying idle, not through choice, but because forcibly kept from mypreferred and actual field of activity, I took to dreams to forget thetediousness of worldly strife and the boredom of jurisprudence’spedantic etiquette.

Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bring you as muchenjoyment in the reading as they brought to me in the writing.

...

DAY DREAMS

(TO M.)

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

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