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Title: Daisy Dare, and Baby Power
Poems

Author: Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Illustrator: D. Vertner Johnson

Release Date: December 31, 2008 [EBook #27677]

Language: English

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DAISY DARE.

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[Illustration: MULLEN, [handwritten: Truly Yrs, Rosa V Jeffrey] PHOTO.]

DAISY DARE,

AND

BABY POWER:

POEMS.

BY

ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY.

=With Light Illustrations,=

_Designed by D. Vertner Johnson, Esq._

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PHILADELPHIA:
CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER,
819 AND 821 MARKET STREET.
1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN & SON. PRINTED BY MOORE BROS.

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TO

MY DEAR FRIEND

MRS. MARGARET WICKLIFFE PRESTON,

OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY,

THIS VOLUME IS

=Affectionately Inscribed=

BY THE AUTHOR.

LEXINGTON, KY., December 1, 1870.

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"At early morn swept Daisy Dare,--
Sparkling, graceful, passing fair."]

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DAISY DARE.

PART I.

Thro' scented meadows, where do graze
The meek-eyed kine on summer days,
At early morn swept Daisy Dare,--
Sparkling, graceful, passing fair.

Sparkling as the dew-drops gleaming
On her path, or sunlight streaming
Through her tresses--graceful, fair,
As naught on earth save Daisy Dare!

Wondrous tresses! sunshine fades
Mid floating curls and sumptuous bra