899-1900 he taught English at
Mercer University.

Some of his poems were published nationally as early as 1901. More of
his poems were published by `The Charlotte Observer' starting in 1903,
and in 1904 he joined its staff.

This etext was created by entering the text (manually) twice, once from
the first printing (1906) and once from the second printing (no date),
and comparing the two. There were some slight differences in the two
printings.

A portrait of John Charles McNeill faces the title page (p. 3) in the
second printing, but is absent in the first.

The first printing gives the publisher as Stone & Barringer Co. and
gives the date as 1906. The second printing gives the publisher as
Stone Publishing Co., and gives no date. Both were printed in
Charlotte, N.C.

One error was corrected (the second printing also corrected this error):

(p. 73)
[ A holy presence hovers round here there, ]
changed to:
[ A holy presence hovers round her there, ]

The second printing also changed the title of the poem [ To Melvin
Gardner: Suicide ], on p. 19, to [ To Melvin Gardner: ]--in the text,
but not in the table of Contents. This may have been done in deference
to the family--attitudes on suicide were once quite different than
now--but as it has been quite some time, and the original title gives
more meaning to the poem, it has been retained.

The Title of the poem [ Now! ] did not have the exclamation point in the
table of Contents. It has been added to match the text. The Title of
the poem [ "97": The Fast Mail ] appeared as such in the text, but as
["97:" The Fast Mail ] in the Contents. The latter was changed to match
the text.

In the original, the book's title does not separate the Contents from
the first poem. It has been placed there as a sort of divider.

In two places ASCII fails to provide enough characters for a correct
rendering. They are the words Provencal (the c with a cedilla) and
mailed (the e with an acute accent, to indicate that the word is to be
said with two syllables). These occur in "Reminiscence" and "The
Rattlesnake".

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