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    The Calendar, and Other Verses
    The Calendar, and Other Verses
    The Calendar, and Other Verses
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    The Calendar, and Other Verses

    By Irving Sidney Dix

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Calendar, and Other Verses" by Irving Sidney Dix. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547327899
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      The Calendar, and Other Verses - Irving Sidney Dix

      Irving Sidney Dix

      The Calendar, and Other Verses

      EAN 8596547327899

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      The Calendar An Idyll of The Hills

      Part 1

      PART TWO.

      NIAGARA

      FAIRIES OF THE FROST

      THE RIVERMEN.

      THE SCHOOL OF LIFE

      A VISIT FROM THE CRICKET

      I.

      II.

      III.

      IV.

      IN PRAISE OF INEZ.

      THE CRIME OF CHRISTMASTIME.

      I.

      II.

      III.

      IV.

      THE MINER.

      LOVE OF COUNTRY.

      THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC

      WAR AND PEACE.

      PEACE AND WAR.

      TO ANDREW CARNEGIE.

      Foreword

      Table of Contents

      Drop A

      bout a year ago, having collected all those poems and verses which I considered of any value, I took a certain pride in the thought that I might soon bring under one roof these imaginary children of mine, so that they might be sheltered in time of storm, as it were, from the cold, and oftimes unfeeling world of commerce but where friends of poetry, who had met with some of my stray children of verse in public journals, might meet with them again, if they desired, with other friendly faces around one common fireside.

      But I found that the expense incident to such a venture was so great that unless a large number of copies were sold I would be involved in a larger debt than I cared to contract. Then the plan of securing sufficient advance subscriptions to meet part of the expense of a first edition occurred to me, thereby following the method of Tennyson, Robert Burns and others, of whose example I needed not to be ashamed, but other work prevented me, and still prevents me, from carrying out this plan.

      So lest those friends who have shown an interest in my verses should think that I have turned aside from the Path of

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