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Title: The Old Soldiers Story
Poems and Prose Sketches

Author: James Whitcomb Riley

Release Date: May 11, 2010 [EBook #32335]

Language: English

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THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY

_Poems and Prose Sketches_

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Indianapolis

The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers

Copyright 1913, 1914, 1915

James Whitcomb Riley

Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N. Y.

TO

GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ.

"_Apples ben ripe in my gardayne_"

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY 1

SOMEP'N COMMON-LIKE 5

MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE 6

A PHANTOM 7

IN THE CORRIDOR 8

LOUELLA WAINIE 9

THE TEXT 11

WILLIAM BROWN 12

WHY 14

THE TOUCH OF LOVING HANDS 15

A TEST 16

A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS 17

SUN AND RAIN 19

WITH HER FACE 20

MY NIGHT 21

THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN 22

GOOD-BY, OLD YEAR 23

FALSE AND TRUE 24

A BALLAD FROM APRIL 25

BRUDDER SIMS 27

DEFORMED 28

FAITH 30

THE LOST THRILL