From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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From a Bench in Our Square

a Bench in Our Square, by Samuel Hopkins Adams

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Title: From a Bench in Our Square

Author: Samuel Hopkins Adams

Release Date: February 4, 2004 [EBook #10944]

Language: English

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FROM A BENCH IN OUR SQUARE

BY

Samuel Hopkins Adams

1922

Contents

A Patroness of Art

The House of Silvery Voices

Home-Seekers' Goal

The Guardian of God's Acre

For Mayme, Read Mary

Barbran

Plooie of Our Square

Triumph

FROM A BENCH IN OUR SQUARE

A PATRONESS OF ART

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Peter (flourish-in-red) Quick (flourish-in-green) Banta (period-in-blue) is the style whereby he is known to Our Square.

Summertimes he is a prop and ornament of Coney, that isle of the blest, whose sands he models into gracious forms and noble sentiments, in anticipation of the casual dime or the munificent quarter, wherewith, if you have low, Philistine tastes or a kind heart, you have perhaps aforetime rewarded him. In the off-season the thwarted passion of color possesses him; and upon the flag

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