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    The Calendar and Other Verses
    The Calendar and Other Verses
    The Calendar and Other Verses
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    The Calendar and Other Verses

    By Irving Sidney Dix

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Calendar and Other Verses - Irving Sidney Dix

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      Title: The Calendar and Other Verses

      Author: Irving Sidney Dix

      Release Date: March 11, 2013 [EBook #42306]

      Language: English

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      The Calendar and

      Other Verses

      by

      Irving Sidney Dix

      To Robert Meaker

      ear boy, ten summers—ten swift summers now

      Have come and gone since last I said good-bye,

      Ten idle, wasted summers gone, and how

      I hardly know, so swift the seasons fly:

      So swift the seasons come, so swift they go,

      That scare it seems one brief, one little day,

      Since boyish voices bid us come and play:

      And little girls did seem to lure us so.

      O Robert!—Robert!—If in Paradise

      These idle words of mine can penetrate,

      Thou knowest, then, that tears have wet mine eyes,

      Thou knowest that I felt thy ruthless fate;

      And yet, dear boy, I sometimes feel that thou

      Art happier there than I who mourn thee now.

      I. S. D.

      Written in 1912.

      Contents

      Foreword

      bout a year ago, having collected all those poems and verses which I considered of any value, I took a certain pride in the thought that I might soon bring under one roof these imaginary children of mine, so that they might be sheltered in time of storm, as it were, from the cold, and oftimes unfeeling world of commerce but where friends of poetry, who had met with some of my stray children of verse in public journals, might meet with them again, if they desired, with other friendly faces around one common fireside.

      But I found that the expense incident to such a venture was so great that unless a large number of copies were sold I would be involved in a larger debt than I cared to contract. Then the plan of securing

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