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BUELL HAMPTON

By Willis George Emerson

Boston And Chicago: Forbes & Company 1902

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DEDICATED

TO

MY OLD SWEETHEART

               My sweetheart of the long ago--

                   With rosy cheeks and raven hair--

               Sang lullabies so soft and low,

                   All joyous was the rhythmic air.

               Though other links with luckless fate

                   Have brought me bruises bathed in tears,

               From childhood up to man's estate

                   Her love has held me all the years.

               Our ties grow fonder, day by day,

                   While graces, all, in her combine.

               Oh, love! make good and glad