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    Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers
    Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers
    Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers
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    Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers

    By C. M. (Charles M.) Relyea and James Whitcomb Riley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    • 4/5
      A Nice poem written in an American Country dialect. Some words are archaic.

      It's a nice poem about a good ole Doc who has many skills and likes to help anyone.

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    Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers - C. M. (Charles M.) Relyea

    Project Gutenberg's Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers, by James Whitcomb Riley

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    Title: Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers

    Author: James Whitcomb Riley

    Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

    Release Date: June 22, 2010 [EBook #32944]

    Language: English

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    RUBÁIYÁT OF DOC SIFERS

    BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

    POEMS HERE AT HOME.

    NEGHBORLY POEMS.

    SKETCHES IN PROSE AND OCCASIONAL VERSES.

    AFTERWHILES.

    PIPES O' PAN (Prose and Verse).

    RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD.

    FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT.

    OLD-FASHIONED ROSES (English Edition).

    GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS.

    ARMAZINDY.

    A CHILD-WORLD.

    AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE.

    RUBÁIYÁT OF DOC SIFERS

    BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

    ILLUSTRATED

    BY

    C. M. RELYEA

    PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO.

    NEW YORK M DCCC XC VII

    Copyright, 1897,

    By The Century Co.

    Copyright, 1897,

    By James Whitcomb Riley

    The De Vinne Press.

    TO

    DR. FRANKLIN W. HAYS

    THE LOYAL CHUM OF MY LATEST YOUTH

    AND LIKE FRIEND AND COMRADE STILL

    WITH ALL GRATEFUL AFFECTION OF

    The Author.

    We found him in that far-away that yet to us seems near—

    We vagrants of but yesterday when idlest youth was here,—

    When lightest song and laziest mirth possessed us through and through,

    And all the dreamy summer-earth seemed drugged with morning dew:

    When our ambition scarce had shot a stalk or blade indeed:

    Yours,—choked as in the garden-spot you still deferred to weed:

    Mine,—but a pipe half-cleared of pith—as now it flats and whines

    In sympathetic cadence with a hiccough in the lines.

    Aye, even then—o timely hour!—the high gods did confer

    In our behalf:—and, clothed in power, lo, came their courier—

    Not winged with flame nor shod with wind,—but ambling down the pike,

    Horseback, with saddlebags behind, and guise all human-like.

    And it was given us to see, beneath his rustic rind,

    A native force and mastery of such inspiring kind,

    That half unconsciously we made obeisance.—smiling, thus

    His soul shone from his eyes and laid its glory over us.

    · · · · · ·

    Though, faring still that far-away that yet to us seems near,

    His form, through mists of yesterday, fades from the vision here,

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