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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
I
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