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          “_Whatever your occupation may be_, _and however crowded_
         _your hours with affairs_, _do not fail to secure at least_
              _a few minutes every day for refreshment of your_
                     _inner life with a bit of poetry_.”

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                                  Poems
                            You Ought to Know


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                               SELECTED BY
                             ELIA W. PEATTIE
                (_Literary Editor of the Chicago Tribune_)

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                              ILLUSTRATED BY
                             ELLSWORTH YOUNG

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                       [Picture: Publisher’s logo]

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                   CHICAGO      NEW YORK       TORONTO
                        Fleming H. Revell Company
                           LONDON AND EDINBURGH

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                             Copyright, 1902
                            By Tribune Company

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                 Each illustration copyrighted separately

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                             Copyright, 1903
                        Fleming H. Revell Company

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INTRODUCTION


Each morning, for several months, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has published at
the head of its first column, verses under the caption: “Poems You Ought
to Know.”  It has explained its action by the following quotation from
Professor Charles Eliot Norton:

    “_Whatever your occupation may be_, _and however crowded your hours
    with affairs_, _do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every
    day for refreshment of your inner life with a bit of poetry_.”

By publishing these poems THE TRIBUNE hopes to accomplish two things:
first, to inspire a love of poetry in the hearts of many of its readers
who have never before taken time or thought to read