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Title: Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers

Author: James Whitcomb Riley

Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

Release Date: June 22, 2010 [EBook #32944]

Language: English

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RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS
BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Other Books by
James Whitcomb Riley

POEMS HERE AT HOME.
NEGHBORLY POEMS.
SKETCHES IN PROSE AND OCCASIONAL VERSES.
AFTERWHILES.
PIPES O' PAN (Prose and Verse).
RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD.
FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT.
OLD-FASHIONED ROSES (English Edition).
GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS.
ARMAZINDY.
A CHILD-WORLD.
AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE.

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ILLUSTRATED
BY
C. M. RELYEA

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PUBLISHED BY THE CENTURY CO.
NEW YORK M DCCC XC VII

Copyright, 1897,
BY THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1897,
BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

THE DE VINNE PRESS.

TO

DR. FRANKLIN W. HAYS

THE LOYAL CHUM OF MY LATEST YOUTH
AND LIKE FRIEND AND COMRADE STILL
WITH ALL GRATEFUL AFFECTION OF

THE AUTHOR.

_We found him in that Far-away_
_that yet to us seems near--_
_We vagrants of but yesterday_
_when idlest youth was here,--_
_When lightest song and laziest mirth_
_possessed us through and through,_
_And all the dreamy summer-earth_
_seemed drugged with morning dew:_

_When our ambition scarce had shot_
_a stalk or blade indeed:_
_Yours,--choked as in the garden-spot_
_you still deferred to "weed":_
_Mine,--but a pipe half-cleared of pith--_
_as now it flats and whines_
_In sympathetic cadence with_
_a hiccough in the lines._

_Aye, e