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| Note: | The layout of this document, including serif vs. sans-serif, boldface, indentation and size are an accurate representation of the typography used in the original. The author is known for eclectic choices in this respect—this particular work is one of the milder examples. Images of the original pages can be seen online at the Kentuckiana Digital Library http://kdl.kyvl.org/ |
A
Spray
Of
Kentucky
Pine
—Placed At The Feet Of The Dead Poet—
—James Whitcomb Riley—
By The Hand
Of the Man From
Down On The Farm—
—George Douglass Sherley
—On The Banks
Of Wolf Run—
—1916—
1916
Second Edition
From Ye Olden Printe Shope—
—James M. Byrnes, Esquire—
On Ye Long Highway
Called Shorte in Ye Goodly
Towne Of Lexington Kentucky
The Inscription Two-fold
To The Dead:
Reverently Inscribed
—To the Indiana-Born
World-Wide Poet—
—James Whitcomb Riley—
—This Spray Of Kentucky Pine—
To The Living:
Also Lovingly Inscribed
By The Man From Down
On The Farm To The
Dear Lady Here On The
Banks Of Wolf Run
—His Mother—
On Grateful Commemoration
Of Her Eighty-Fifth Birthday
August 20, 1916
The Prelude
—A Note Explanatory—
With James Whitcomb Riley,
some years ago. This Man From Down On The Farm,
made a Rea