Looking back now, after so many months of struggle and foreboding, he wondered how he had ever had the high courage to come to this strange country. Had he been a few years older he would not have started forth - he was sure of that now. But the flame of youth was in him, the sure sense that he could conquer where others had miserably failed; and, like all virile young Americans, he had love of adventure, and zest for the unknown was in his blood. The glamour of Arizona lured him; the color of these great hills and mountains he had come to love captivated him from the first. It was as if a siren beckoned, and he had to follow.

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Behind my house are windows, each lit with yellow flame, and each one is a little world set in a little frame.' This is the beautiful first stanza of the opening poem in this collection of poems by Charles Hanson Towne. Towne was the toast of late 19th century New York, a chief contributor and eventually editor of distinguished magazines and periodicals such as Harper's Bazaar, The New Yorker and The American.

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