THE SONG OF
THE STONE WALL


BY
HELEN KELLER




1910
Copyright, 1909, 1910.
_Published October, 1910_.




DEDICATION


When I began “The Song of the Stone Wall,” Dr. Edward Everett Hale
was still among us, and it was my intention to dedicate the poem
to him if it should be deemed worthy of publication. I fancied that
he would like it; for he loved the old walls and the traditions that
cling about them.

As I tried to image the men who had built the walls long ago, it
seemed to me that Dr. Hale was the living embodiment of whatever was
heroic in the founders of New England. He was a great American. He
was also a great Puritan. Was not the zeal of his ancestors upon his