. The hope of the world and other poems. love your poetic gift, and your work aud welfare will always be sacred to ine.—Hezekiah Buttcnvorth. Mr. Hawkes dialect poems are as ipiaint as James Whitcomb Rileys, and his childrenspoems compare favorably with those of Eugene Field.—^/r. Chntirs HaVork. It is both a rebuke and an inspiration to us who enjoy the full liberty of our senses tosee how large and beautiful a world your cadenced lines furnish to the conceptions ofyour spiritual vision.—J/r. Georfje W. Cnhle. We might call the book a blind mans life set to sweet music, and bright with the in


. The hope of the world and other poems. love your poetic gift, and your work aud welfare will always be sacred to ine.—Hezekiah Buttcnvorth. Mr. Hawkes dialect poems are as ipiaint as James Whitcomb Rileys, and his childrenspoems compare favorably with those of Eugene Field.—^/r. Chntirs HaVork. It is both a rebuke and an inspiration to us who enjoy the full liberty of our senses tosee how large and beautiful a world your cadenced lines furnish to the conceptions ofyour spiritual vision.—J/r. Georfje W. Cnhle. We might call the book a blind mans life set to sweet music, and bright with the innerlight which bodily conditions cannot mar.—JuVm Itortf Hoive. I have read many of the yntems with genuine i)leasure, and am struck by their purityand earnestness of thought and feeling.—Mrs. Laura E. liicharrffi. 1 find your little volume of verse one to be prized and treasured.—Pres. Mrrrill E. Oafes. The humor of your humorous poems is very fine and delicate and as good of its kind asI have ever read.—Blanche oK uK THE HOPE OF THE WORLD AIND OTHER POEMS. BY CLARENCE HAWKES. With illustrations by R. Lionel De Lisser, Clifton Johnson, andBessie W. Bell Hawkes. NEW ENGLAND PUBLISHING CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 1900. OFFICE ADDRESS, HADLEY, MASS. 8503 of C^ornirt-;- NOV 21 1900 SE(,ON0 COPY Di^lvMcd to ORDEH OIViSIOM MOV 24 laUu 1=S 3S-I S\(\ oo Copyright, Clarence Hawkes. PRESS OF SPRINOFICLO PR<NT1»0 AND BIhDIMQ COMFAN SPRlNOflELO, MASS. TO THE MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWE WHO, THROUGH THE MANY NOBLE DEEDS THAT CROWNED HIS REMARKABLE LIFE, STILL LIVES TO BLESS US. THE HERO. Lines written for Dr. Howe hi/ John Grcenleaf Whittier. * O for a knight like Bayard, Without reproach or fear;My lij^ht glove on his casque of steel,My love-knot on his spear! ^ ih ^/r Wherever outraged NatureAsks word or action brave,Wherever struggles labor,Wherever groans a slave,— Wherever rise the peoples,Wherever sinks a throne,The throbbing heart of Freedom f


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