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Title: The Old Soldiers Story
Poems and Prose Sketches
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Release Date: May 11, 2010 [EBook #32335]
Language: English
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THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY
_Poems and Prose Sketches_
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers
Copyright 1913, 1914, 1915
James Whitcomb Riley
Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N. Y.
TO
GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ.
"_Apples ben ripe in my gardayne_"
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY 1
SOMEP'N COMMON-LIKE 5
MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE 6
A PHANTOM 7
IN THE CORRIDOR 8
LOUELLA WAINIE 9
THE TEXT 11
WILLIAM BROWN 12
WHY 14
THE TOUCH OF LOVING HANDS 15
A TEST 16
A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS 17
SUN AND RAIN 19
WITH HER FACE 20
MY NIGHT 21
THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN 22
GOOD-BY, OLD YEAR 23
FALSE AND TRUE 24
A BALLAD FROM APRIL 25
BRUDDER SIMS 27
DEFORMED 28
FAITH 30
THE LOST THRILL
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