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How Salvator Won

AND


O T H E R   R E C I T A T I O N S


BY
ELLA   WHEELER   WILCOX

Author of “Maurine,” “Poems of Passion,” “Poems of Pleasure,” “MalMoulée,” “Adventures of Miss Volney,” “A Double Life,” Etc.


New York
EDGAR S. WERNER
1891{3}


COPYRIGHT, 1891,
BY
EDGAR S. WERNER.

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PREFACE.

I AM constantly urged by readers and impersonators to furnish them withverses for recitation. In response to this ever-increasing demand I haveselected, for this volume, the poems which seem suitable for such apurpose.

In making my collection I have been obliged to use, not those which areamong my best efforts in a literary or artistic sense, but those whichcontain the best dramatic possibilities for professionals. Several ofthe poems are among my earliest efforts, others were written expresslyfor this book. In “Meg’s Curse,” which has never before been in print,and in several others, I ignored all rules of art for the purpose ofgiving the public reader a better chance to exercise his elocutionarypowers.

E. W. W.
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CONTENTS.