Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . FOREWORD IHE poems in this little book havebeen selected with the earnestdesire that they may help todeepen the favorable impressionwhich our fair City has made on the strangerwithin its gates and on the sons and daugh-ters of Portland whose homes may be afarbut whose hearts are still with us. Permission has been obtained from authorsand publishers for copyrighted poems re-corded here. Special thanks are due theYouths Companion and Miss Adalena for the verses on The LongfellowHouse, to the New England Magazine andMiss Grace Agnes Thompson for T
Impressions in and about Portland, Maine . FOREWORD IHE poems in this little book havebeen selected with the earnestdesire that they may help todeepen the favorable impressionwhich our fair City has made on the strangerwithin its gates and on the sons and daugh-ters of Portland whose homes may be afarbut whose hearts are still with us. Permission has been obtained from authorsand publishers for copyrighted poems re-corded here. Special thanks are due theYouths Companion and Miss Adalena for the verses on The LongfellowHouse, to the New England Magazine andMiss Grace Agnes Thompson for TheGround of Kinship, also to the Revell Pub-lishing Company and to Robert Rexdale for Motherland. Carrie Thompson Lowell. Portland, Maine, March, THE GROUND OF KINSHIP ( With apologies to the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, who claimedfor Cambridge, Mass., the palm as Nicest place that ever was seen.) Know old Maine ? You bet I there? Dont say so ! I was, too,—Born in a farm-house with one-pitched roof,Weather-worn, if you must have proof — Pine-Tree Gulch. Ah ! Let me begYoull search from Key West to Winnipeg,No saner childhood11 you find aloofThan under an old Maine farmhouse roof. Nicest place that ever was seen,—Rugged old hills and pastures green,Rivers a-plenty with woods spot beneath the skies Soon as apple bloom perfumes rise ;Summer in Mame is time that your mouth and ears and treasures of shore where ocean lies. And bird-trilled groves and berry piesAnd myriads else that Yankees prize. Grace Agnes Tliompson.
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