By Louis L'Amour
Smoke From This Altar, a booklet that has develop into mythical between Louis L'Amour readers, is the first actual e-book L'Amour ever released. It seemed, to nice serious compliment, on the market basically in Oklahoma bookstores greater than fifty years in the past. seeing that then it has develop into the main sought-after L'Amour name of all, with the few circulating copies from the details run commanding most sensible buck from infrequent e-book creditors. Now, eventually, it really is being released nationally during this appealing memento Bantam edition.
It used to be in Smoke From This Altar that L'Amour first gave public voice to his now-celebrated spirit of wanderlust. just like the brief tales in his vintage, million-copy-selling Yondering, and his best-selling memoir Education of a Wandering Man, the poems during this booklet are encouraged through his stories and thoughts of his trips throughout oceans and continents. it's classic L'Amour storytelling--in verse--about nature, the land, and the folk who enjoyed and braved it.
Smoke From This Altar starts with a newly written creation via his spouse Kathy within which she discusses the precise position this paintings has held within the L'Amours' lives. In concludes with twenty formerly uncollected L'Amour poems chosen via his family.
Impassioned, adventurous, heroic, and funny, Smoke From This Altar is exclusive L'Amour writing, to be learn and loved many times.
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You spoke too often, Friend; had you forgot The insignificant ever dislike To be reminded of insignificance? You were the best of them, Bruno, the best By more than the flames that wrought the Change In the monads of your soul. As the flames Engulfed in fiery foam your anguished lips, Did you dying, wonder at those foolish ones Who sought to stifle truth with violence? THE WEARY ONE I wandered along the dusty way seeking the dawn of another day, like a drifting chip on a lonely stream, like a breath of wind or a vagrant dream a forgotten soul on a weary quest searching for home and love and rest.
He had no idea what she was talking about, but being Louis, back to the library he went to read and reread Wordsworth, Browning, Tennyson, Frost, and Service, to discover just what it was that made a great poem. During his travels he would occasionally compose poems, and it always seemed remarkable to me that he could both create and then remember them without writing them down; it seemed as if he could never forget a line or even a word. Louis explained that before the development of writing, poetry was one of the tricks ancient people used to remember stories.
A HANDFUL OF STARS Give me, O Night, a blessing Of peace, and a handful of stars— Give me, O Dawn, a beginning, New life, and a healing of scars; Give me, O Day, a freshening Of spirit, and warmth in the sun— Give me, O Earth, of thy bounty, Strength for the task I’ve begun. Leave me, O Night, of your stillness A calm for my inward soul— Leave me a breath of your darkness To cool me, and keep me whole; Leave me the wind in the willows The roll of the surf and the sea— Leave me, Beloved, my memories Of dreams you have given to me.