Young Adventure

A Book of Poems by

Stephen Vincent Benet






Some of these poems were originally printed in various periodicals.






To W. R. B.

Dedication



And so, to you, who always were
Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot
To me, I give these weedy rhymes
In memory of earlier times.
Now all those careless days are not.
Of all my heroes, you endure.