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    Some Broken Twigs
    Some Broken Twigs
    Some Broken Twigs
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    Some Broken Twigs

    By Clara Frances McKee Beede

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Some Broken Twigs - Clara Frances McKee Beede

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Broken Twigs, by Clara M. Beede

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Some Broken Twigs

      Author: Clara M. Beede

      Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15211]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME BROKEN TWIGS ***

      Produced by David Starner, Karen Dalrymple, and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.

      Some Broken Twigs

      BY

      CLARA M. BEEDE

      The Press of Flozari, Pegasus Studios

      Box 5804, Cleveland, 1, Ohio

      1946

      Dedicated to my granddaughter

      BETTY TODD BRISTOW

      the new mother

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      We are grateful for permission to include certain poems that were first published in Caravan of Verse, Cass County Democrat, 1943 Chipmunk, From, Lyricists Reflections, 1940 Song Poems, The New Earth, Tulsa Tribune, and 1941 Visions.

      OTHER TORCHBEARER CHAPBOOKS

      by

      CLARA M. BEEDE

      45: Brown Plumes

      51: More Brown Plumes

      63: Sunshine and Rain

      73: Clear Crystals (Second Printing)

      88: Only Pebbles

      94: Golden Leaves

      98: Sail High Above

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD

      TO NEW YORK

      MEET THE CHALLENGE

      WINTER

      DREAMING BY THE RIVER

      WHEN YOU COME HOME

      CHILDREN AT THE PARK

      THE FLEET (1945)

      SPRING IS BUDDING

      BEAUTIFUL ROSE

      SUN ON THE RIVER

      OUT ON THE BAY

      RESTING

      A SHOWER'S MELODY

      IF YOU HEAR

      DANCING ON A LEVEL ROAD

      IT WAS HOME

      QUESTIONS

      DISTRUST

      COUNTING

      ON THE FERRY

      PERHAPS

      OKLAHOMA

      OUR MORNING PRAYER

      WE THANK OUR GOD

      WAITING

      THAT HAPPY COMPANIONSHIP

      I WATCHED MY FLOWERS

      BEES

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