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First Line: Through fire and flood this book has passed
Last Line: Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Books; Fire; Poetry & Poets; Reading


[Writ 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.]

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 yourn is -- and a Hoosier too, --
I'm prouder of the book, I jing!
Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing!





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