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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ballads, by Horatio Alger, Jr. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Ballads Author: Horatio Alger, Jr. Posting Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #1919] Release Date: October, 1999 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BALLADS *** Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer BALLADS By Horatio Alger, Jr. 1875 Contents: BALLADS. Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving St. Nicholas Barbara's Courtship The Confession Rose in the Garden Phoebe's Wooing The Lost Heart John Maynard Friar Anselmo MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. In the Church at Stratford-on-Avon Mrs. Browning's Grave at Florence My Castle Apple-Blossoms Summer Hours June Little Charlie The Whippoorwill and I Carving a Name IN TIME OF WAR. Gone to the War Where is my Boy To-night? A Soldier's Valentine Last Words Song of the Croaker King Cotton Out of Egypt The Price of Victory HARVARD ODES. I. Fair Harvard, Dear Guide of Our Youth's Golden Days II. As We Meet in Thy Name, Alma Mater, Tonight III. Fair Harvard, The Months Have Accomplished Their Round IV. there's a Fountain of Fable, Whose Magical Power OCCASIONAL ODES. Bi-Centennial Ode For the Consecration of a Cemetery BALLADS. GRAND'THER BALDWIN'S THANKSGIVING UNDERNEATH protected branches, from the highway just aloof; Stands the house of Grand'ther Baldwin, with its gently sloping roof. Square of shape and solid-timbered, it was standing, I have heard, In the days of Whig and Tory, under royal George the Third. Many a time, I well remember, I have gazed with Childish awe At the bullet-hole remaining in the sturdy oaken door, Turning round half-apprehensive (recking not how time had fled) Of the lurking, savage foeman from whose musket it was sped.. Not far off, the barn, plethoric with the autumn's harvest spoils, Holds the farmer's well-earned trophies--the guerdon of his toil
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