[@3Writ on the fly-leaf of a volume of the author's poems that come in one of gittin' burnt up in the great Bowen. Merrill's fire of March 17, 1890.@1] THROUGH fire and flood this book has passed. -- Fer what? -- I hardly dare to ast -- Less'n it's still to pamper me With extry food fer vanity; -- Fer, sence it's fell in hands as true As @3yourn@1 is -- and a @3Hoosier@1 too, -- I'm prouder of the book, I jing! Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOTHER IN THE HOUSE by HERMANN HAGEDORN VICKSBURG by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE INGRATITUDE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH DAY AND NIGHT SONGS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM TO AN INDEPENDENT PREACHER by MATTHEW ARNOLD TWELVE SONNETS: 3. THE VALLEY ROSES by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |