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DON BLANDING
"Songs of the Seven Senses"

Including Farewell to Vagabond's House

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1931
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 121 pages

Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding

Dedication:
To the Rowdy Duchess I Dedicate This book
(Lorraine T. Stevens)

Acknowledgement is made to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for the use of some of my verses
D.B.

Contents:

Fabric (preface)
Song of the Seven Senses
Quest and Request
The Last Toast
Challenge to Fate

SONGS OF THE FIRST SENSE
Sight
Why do I Return... Hawaii...
Moon Rainbow
Star-Gazer
Farewell to Vagabond's House
    Part One: Following the Dream
    Part Two: The Dream Comes True
When Friendship Fails...
Tropical Sunset
Beauty
The Smiling Mask

SONGS OF THE SECOND SENSE
Sounds
Ylang-Ylang Flowers
While I was Blind...
Happiness
Lei Sellers
Souvenir
Black Point
SONGS OF THE THIRD SENSE
Fragrances
Roses
Night Flowers of the Tropics
White Ginger Lei
Desert Flowers
At St. Clements' Church on Wilder Avenue

SONGS OF THE FOURTH SENSE
Taste
Regarding the Apple...
Song of the Kitchen

SONGS OF THE FIFTH SENSE
Touch
The Right Touch
Portrait of a Charming Cheat
Song of the Vagabond
Tragedy in a Garden

SONGS OF THE SIXTH SENSE
The Awareness of Gods
Reply
When... If Ever...
The Artist
To One Who Chose the Nearest Exit...
Idol
MIXED-BOUQUET
September Fifteenth
Hearts-on-a-String
Last Night
Regarding an Affair...
White Night
Vagabond's Heart
Kapu! Keep Out!
Rebellion
Reward of Virtue

TROPICALIA
Flowers of the Rainbow
Hawaiian June
Apology
Hawaii
Hawaiian Year

SONGS OF THE SEVEN SENSE
Nonsense
Poetic Justice
Photograph of an Old Love
The Defense of the Goose

Notes:
Tropical Sunset
was written from Kimo Wilder's house on Tantalus.

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