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Lyrics of Earth

By Archibald Lampman



First published in Boston by Copeland and Day, 1895.



To my Mother


Mother, to whose valiant will
Battling long ago,
What the heaping years fulfil,
Light and song, I owe;
Send my little book afield,
Fronting praise or blame
With the shining flag and shield
Of your name.