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    Daisy Dare, and Baby Power Poems
    Daisy Dare, and Baby Power Poems
    Daisy Dare, and Baby Power Poems
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    Daisy Dare, and Baby Power Poems

    By D. Vertner Johnson and Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Daisy Dare, and Baby Power Poems - D. Vertner Johnson

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      Title: Daisy Dare, and Baby Power

      Poems

      Author: Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

      Illustrator: D. Vertner Johnson

      Release Date: December 31, 2008 [EBook #27677]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAISY DARE, AND BABY POWER ***

      Produced by David Garcia, Emmy and the Online Distributed

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

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Kentuckiana Digital Library)

      DAISY DARE.

      DAISY DARE,

      AND

      BABY POWER:

      POEMS.

      BY

      ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY.

      With Light Illustrations,

      Designed by D. Vertner Johnson, Esq.

      PHILADELPHIA:

      CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER,

      819 and 821 Market Street.

      1871.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

      ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY,

      in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN & SON. PRINTED BY MOORE BROS.

      TO

      MY DEAR FRIEND

      MRS. MARGARET WICKLIFFE PRESTON,

      OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY,

      THIS VOLUME IS

      Affectionately Inscribed

      By The Author .

      Lexington, Ky.

      , December 1, 1870.

      "At early morn swept Daisy Dare,—

      Sparkling, graceful, passing fair."

      Daisy Dare.

      PART I.

      Sparkling as the dew-drops gleaming

      On her path, or sunlight streaming

      Through her tresses—graceful,

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