[@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...STALKING LEMURS by KAREN SWENSON THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 8. PRELUDE: THE KISS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE IN THE BELFRY OF THE NIEUWE KERK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH WOODBINES IN OCTOBER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES THE SCHOOLROOM OF POETS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE SILKWORM by VINCENT BOURNE |