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Title: Our Profession and Other Poems

Author: Jared Barhite

Release Date: October 2, 2006 [EBook #19443]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Jared Barhite]

OUR PROFESSION

AND

OTHER POEMS.

BY

JARED BARHITE,

Principal of Third Ward Grammar School,
Long Island City, N. Y.

PUBLISHED BY

WILLIAM E. BARHITE,

270 Freeman Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y.

1895.

COPYRIGHT, 1895.

PRESS OF
WEISEL, MEIER & WITTE,
109 NASSAU ST., N. Y.

PREFACE.

During the past quarter of a century, it has been a pleasant pastime for
me to obey the dictates of my feelings and inscribe them upon paper.

The present volume is a collection of these vagrant pastimes, some of
which have wandered far, while others have never before appeared to any
eye save the writer's.

To call them home, introduce them to each other, and properly house
them, seems a parental duty.

If in them there is a thought that shall inspire others of my profession
to feel the dignity and responsibility of the calling, their publication
will not have been in vain.

The intent being good, the fruit cannot be evil.

The Author.

DEDICATION.

TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, WHOSE DEVOTION, ENERGY, AND
PERSEVERANCE LED ME TO DRINK AT THE FOUNTAIN OF
KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH, UNTIL I SAW BEAUTY THEREIN,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

The true end of life is to elevate man
In body, in mind, and in spirit,
That here he may serve some beneficent plan,
Then a mansion in heaven inherit.

INDEX.

PAGE.

A Beacon Light 129

A Boy 81

A Lesson from Nature