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    Songs Ysame
    Songs Ysame
    Songs Ysame
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    Songs Ysame

    By Annie F. Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston and Albion Fellows Bacon

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Songs Ysame

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      Songs Ysame - Annie F. Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Songs Ysame, by

      Annie Fellows Johnston and Albion Fellows Bacon

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

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Songs Ysame

      Author: Annie Fellows Johnston

      Albion Fellows Bacon

      Release Date: March 3, 2012 [EBook #39032]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS YSAME ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      SONGS YSAME

      Dainty Volumes of Poetry

      Price, per volume, $1.25

      GOLDEN TREASURY OF AMERICAN SONGS AND LYRICS.

      Edited by F. L. Knowles.

      CAP AND GOWN. First Series.

      Edited by J. L. Harrison.

      CAP AND GOWN. Second Series.

      Edited by F. L. Knowles.

      SONGS YSAME.

      By Annie Fellows Johnston and Albion Fellows Bacon.

      OUT OF THE HEART.

      Edited by J. W. Chadwick.

      L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY, Publishers

      (INCORPORATED)

      196 Summer Street, Boston

      Motherhood

      SONGS YSAME

      BY

      ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

      AND

      ALBION FELLOWS BACON

      BOSTON

      L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

      (INCORPORATED)

      MDCCCXCVII

      Copyright, 1897,

      By L. C. Page and Company

      (INCORPORATED)

      Colonial Press:

      Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.

      Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

      TO

      Our Mother

      Mary Erskine Fellows

      CONTENTS.

      FOOTNOTES:

      [A] By permission of Youth's Companion.

      [B] By permission of Harper's Weekly.

      [C] By permission of Frank Leslie.

      PRELUDE.

      WE cannot sing of life, whose years are brief,

      Nor sad heart-stories tell, who know no grief,

      Nor write of shipwrecks on the seas of Fate,

      Whose ship from out the harbor sailed but late.

      But we may sing of fair and sunny days,

      Of Love that walks in peace through quiet ways;

      And unto him who turns the page to see

      Our simple story, haply it may be

      As when in some mild day in early spring,

      One through the budding woods goes wandering;

      And finds, where late the snow has blown across,

      Beneath the leaves, a violet in the

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