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Title: Oklahoma and Other Poems

Author: Freeman E. Miller

Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14953]

Language: English

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OKLAHOMA

AND

OTHER POEMS

BY

FREEMAN E. MILLER, A.M.,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE

AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF

OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

BUFFALO

CHARLES WELLS MOULTON

1895

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COPYRIGHT, 1895,

BY FREEMAN E. MILLER, A.M.

PRINTED BY

CHARLES WELLS MOULTON,

BUFFALO, N.Y.

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_TO_

_JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY,_

_IN AFFECTIONATE_

_MEMORY OF OTHER DAYS._

_Our dearest joys forever flow_
_From fountains of the Long Ago,_
_That from the heights of pleasures past_
_Flood all the present valleys vast,_
_And with eternal glees provide_
_The future's endless ocean tide._

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_To ope each cage where a heartless age_
_Hath chained the birds of singing,_
_Till Love's own glee that is fond and free_
_Shall laugh where they are winging,--_
_Such is my wish. 'Tis true, hold I,_
_That songs, like birds, in bondage die._

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CONTENTS.

OKLAHOMA 9
THE RACE FOR HOMES 15
AT PERRY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1893 19
"SING ME A SONG, O WIND." 21
A CHRISTMAS CAROL 24
YEARS THAT ARE TO BE 26
IF WE DON'T OR IF WE DO 28
DEAR SONGS OF MY COUNTRY 30
JULY FOURTH 33
"O, GENTLE SHADES OF QUIET WOODS." 35
LOVE 37
WINTERS ON THE FARM 39
"O, WEAK AND WEARY WORLD." 41
EX ANIMA