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TO EFFIE WALLER by PETER CLAY

First Line: FAR UP AMONG THE MOUNTAINS
Last Line: "TO CHARM US WITH THE POET'S MYSTIC ART."
Subject(s): SMITH, EFFIE WALLER (1879-1960);
@3"Far up among the mountains,
Where rivers leave their fountains,
And happy birds send forth their merry thrills;
There dwells a little poet,
Though few there be who know it,
Whose voice is an echo from the hills.@1

@3"You may not like her station,
For she is not Caucasian,
Yet God with music touched the singer's heart;
And thoughts in liquid measure
Doth flow out like a treasure,
To charm us with the poet's mystic art."@1




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