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    The Comet and Other Verses
    The Comet and Other Verses
    The Comet and Other Verses
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    The Comet and Other Verses

    By Irving Sidney Dix

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

      Project Gutenberg's The Comet and Other Verses, by Irving Sidney Dix

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      Title: The Comet and Other Verses

      Author: Irving Sidney Dix

      Release Date: March 5, 2013 [EBook #42265]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COMET AND OTHER VERSES ***

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      available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      Transcriber's Note:

      Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical error; the following words have been corrected and marked underlined in the text:

      Page 10: sprits         --> spirits

                    evermore    --> evermore.

      Page 26: decendeth  --> descendeth

                    Autnmn      --> Autumn

      Page 31: thé             --> the

      THE COMET

      and

      OTHER VERSES

      By IRVING SIDNEY DIX

      DEDICATION

      To the Memory of my school mate William Morgan who was drowned in the Delaware.

      Press of Munn's Review         Carbondale, Penna.

      With the Reader

      It should be stated that some of these verses, in a slightly different form, have previously appeared in various periodicals in Binghamton, Scranton, Philadelphia and New York City, but most of them appear here for the first time, and also, perhaps it should be mentioned that some of these stanzas were written during my school days. However, the majority of the following verses have been composed since the former booklet was published.

      And if in any way you have been helped to see, that even here in this rugged country the poetry of earth is never ceasing, however rude my interpretation of it may seem to the critical, the labor and expense of publishing this little volume will be fully justified.

      Irving Dix.

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