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Title: Weeds by the Wall
Verses

Author: Madison J. Cawein

Release Date: January 2, 2010 [EBook #30830]

Language: English

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Weeds by the Wall

_VERSES_

BY
MADISON CAWEIN
Author of "Myth and Romance," "Undertones," "Garden of Dreams,"
"Shapes and Shadows," etc., etc.

_"I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall."_
--EMERSON.

LOUISVILLE
JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY
1901

COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY MADISON J. CAWEIN

TO
DR. HENRY A. COTTELL
_Whose Kind Words of Friendship and Approval have Encouraged
me when I Most Needed Encouragement._

_For permission to reprint most of the poems included in this volume
thanks are due to the "Atlantic Monthly," "Harper's Magazine" and
"Bazar," "Lippincott's," "Saturday Evening Post," "New England
Magazine," "Leslie's Monthly," "Smart Set," "Truth," "Outlook,"
"Independent," "Youth's Companion," "Woman's Home Companion,"
"Munsey's," and a number of other periodicals and magazines._

CONTENTS.

PAGE
A Wild Iris 1
The Path by the Creek 2
The Road Home 5
A Twilight Moth 6
Along the Stream 8
The Cricket 9
Voices 11
The Grasshopper 12
The Tree To