An Old
Sweetheart of Mine

James Whitcomb Riley

Drawings by
Howard Chandler Christy

Decorations by
Virginia Keep

The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers Indianapolis

Copyright, 1888-1899-1902
James Whitcomb Riley

Copyright, 1902
The Bowen-Merrill Company



Inscribed

To GEORGE C. HITT

The beginning of whose steadfast friendship was marked by the firstpublication of these verses which now, expanded by writer, honored bypublisher and masterfully graced by artist, seem to be a worthier symbolof the author's grateful and affectionate regard for his earliestfriend


IFrontispiece—An Old Sweetheart of Mine.
IIA fair, illusive vision that would vanish into air
IIIThe then of changeless sunny days—The now of shower and shine
IVThe old bookshelves and prints along the wall
VI find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine
VIIts fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke
VIIWhen my truant fancies wander with that old sweetheart of mine
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BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!


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