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A Roadside Harp


Cover

By Miss Guiney.


THE WHITE SAIL, AND OTHERPOEMS. 16mo, gilt top, $1.25.

SONGS AT THE START. 16mo, $1.00.

A ROADSIDE HARP. 16mo.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York.


Title page

A ROADSIDE HARP
A BOOK OF VERSES BY
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY

Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be,
And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet,
Tempers her words to trampling horses’ feet,
More oft than to a chamber melody!

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND
COMPANY M DCCC XCIII


COPYRIGHT, 1893
BY LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.


TO DORA AND HESTER SIGERSON

There in the Druid brake
If the cuckoo be awake
Again, O take my rhyme!
And keep it long for the sake
Of a bygone primrose-time;
You of the star-bright head
That twilight thoughts sequester,
You to your native fountains led
Like to a young Muse garlanded:
Dora, and Hester.
...

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