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    Sonnets of a Budding Bard
    Sonnets of a Budding Bard
    Sonnets of a Budding Bard
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    Sonnets of a Budding Bard

    By Nixon Waterman and John A. Williams

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Sonnets of a Budding Bard - Nixon Waterman

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      Title: Sonnets of a Budding Bard

      Author: Nixon Waterman

      Illustrator: John A. Williams

      Release Date: October 28, 2012 [EBook #41216]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONNETS OF A BUDDING BARD ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Matthew Wheaton and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      SONNETS OF A BUDDING BARD

      BOOKS BY

      NIXON WATERMAN

      A BOOK OF VERSES

      IN MERRY MOOD

      BOY WANTED

      FORBES & COMPANY

      CHICAGO

      Sometimes I get to wishin’ I might be

      A little lamb like Mary’s, fond and true,

      With Susan Sanderson as Mary, see?

      We’d play amidst the clover sweet with dew,

      And everywhere that she wast there’d be me,

      And if she wasn’t, I’dst be elsewhere, too.

      SONNETS OF A BUDDING BARD

      BY

      NIXON WATERMAN

      WITH DRAWINGS BY

      JOHN A. WILLIAMS

      CHICAGO FORBES & COMPANY

      1907

      Copyright, 1907, by

      The Century Co.

      Copyright, 1907, by

      Forbes and Company

      Printed by COLONIAL PRESS:

      C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

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