Vacation Verse

By William M. MacKeracher

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066100049

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William M. MacKeracher

Vacation Verse

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066100049

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TO

MR. ROBERT McDOUGALL, B.A.

My Dear Rob.—My intention when I left the country was, as you know, to publish a volume of some size, which should present among its contents the long poem which I wrote during the early part of my last vacation. The design has dwindled until it finds its execution in the publication of this little pamphlet, containing merely passages from that poem. Some of these you heard recited as we strolled together through the fields of the Chateauguay Valley, and were kind enough to approve. My hope is, that, considering the stage of advancement of their author, and remembering the circumstances of his writing (during the intervals of study for a college examination), you will approve all the pieces here presented to you by him; and my further hope is, that you,—you, sweet in song as firm in friendship,—may yet have cause to regard him as one

"Who touch'd a jarring lyre at first,

But ever