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The Barefoot Time
The Barefoot Time
The Barefoot Time
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    The Barefoot Time - Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

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    Title: The Barefoot Time

    Author: Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

    Release Date: October 11, 2012 [EBook #41026]

    Language: English

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    Barefoot Time

    ADELBERT FARRINGTON CALDWELL


    The Barefoot Time

    Adelbert Farrington Caldwell

    Boston: Richard G. Badger

    The Gorham Press

    1903

    Copyright 1903 by Adelbert F. Caldwell

    All Rights Reserved

    Printed at

    The Gorham Press

    Boston

    To My Mother

    Whose sharing my pleasures then, makes cherished

    the memories of childhood now.


    PREFACE

    Many of the selections of this little volume of child’s verse have appeared from time to time in The Youth’s Companion, Ladies’ World, Farm and Home, Outlook, Sunday School Times, Forward, and The Independent; and if, in bringing them together, occasionally here and there verses a trifle beyond the barefoot time have crept in, perhaps they were not unintentionally admitted for children of a larger growth.

    A. F. C.


    CONTENTS


    THE BAREFOOT TIME

    Oh, the golden age of the barefoot time,

    While life was a fairy tale sung in rhyme,

    When phantoms grim of a future day

    Were hid in the mists of the far away;

    When we carved for ourselves from our June daydreams

    (Only yesterday now it seems),

    Statues of greatness, Jim and I,

    In the mystical

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