OTHER POEMS
Reading edition
BY
FREEMAN E. MILLER, A.M.,
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.
BUFFALO
CHARLES WELLS MOULTON
1895
COPYRIGHT, 1895,
BY FREEMAN E. MILLER, A.M.
PRINTED BY
CHARLES WELLS MOULTON,
BUFFALO, N.Y.
TO
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY,
IN AFFECTIONATE
MEMORY OF OTHER DAYS.
Our dearest joys forever flow From fountains of the Long Ago, That from the heights of pleasures past Flood all the present valleys vast, And with eternal glees provide The future's endless ocean tide.
To ope each cage where a heartless age Hath chained the birds of singing, Till Love's own glee that is fond and free Shall laugh where they are winging,— Such is my wish. 'Tis true, hold I, That songs, like birds, in bondage die.