Where the Blue Begins

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Where the Blue Begins (1923)
by Christopher Morley

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c. 1922

From The Outlook, Dec 1922: "Where the Blue Begins" is easier to read than to describe. We are pleasantly introduced into a dog world, where the dog people live and talk and act very much like human beings, so much so, indeed, that an intention of gentle and humorous satire runs through the whole. One hates to use the word whimsical in speaking of Mr. Morley's work [but] … no word begins to describe his peculiar appeal as that does.

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WHERE
THE
BLUE
BEGINS

CHRISTOPHER

MORLEY

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WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS

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WHERE THE
BLUE BEGINS

BY
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY

When I saw that rage was vain,
And to sulk would nothing gain,
Turning many a trick and wile
I began to soothe and smile.

—William Blake

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1923

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

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INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

TO

FELIX and TOTO

"I am not free—
And it may be
Life is too tight around my shins;
For, unlike you,
I can't break through,
A truant where the blue begins.

"Out of the very element
Of bondage, that here holds me pent,
I'll make my furious sonnet:
I'll turn my noose
To tightrope use
And madly dance upon it.

"So I will take
My leash, and make
A wilder and more subtle fleeing—
And I shall be
More escapading and more free
Than you have ever dreamed of being!"

WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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