The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland. Various

       With the Tide.

       The Old Fashion.

       My Baby and the Rose.

       Folger Mc Kinsey.

       Waiting Their Crowns.

       Sea Echoes.

       Where Fancy Dwells.

       At Key’s Grave.

       The Eternal Life.

       Mrs. Rosaliene Romula Murphy.

       Woman’s Rights.

       Only a Baby.

       To Helen,

       On Writing a Second Time in Her Album.

       Rachel Elizabeth Patterson.

       “Judge Not!”

       The Wish.

       The Christian’s Anchor.

       Callander Patterson.

       God Is Great.

       Tobias Rudulph.

       Selection from Tancred.

       Zebulon Rudulph.

       The Surprise.

       Thoughts,

       On the Death of My Grandchild Fanny.

       The Decree.

       A View from Mount Carmel.

       Mrs. Alice Coale Simpers.

       The Miller’s Romance.

       The Last Time.

       Only a Simple Maid!

       The Mystic Clock.

       A New Year’s Poem.

       “Rube” and “Will.”

       An Episode Related by Aunt Sheba.

       The Legend of St. Bavon!

       David Scott (of James.)

       The Forced Alliance.

       My Cottage Home.

       A Vesper Hymn.

       The Mighty One.

       The Surviving Thought.

       The Working Man’s Song.

       Ode to Death.

       Henry Vanderford.

       On the Mountains.

       Progress.

       Winter.

       Lines

       On Witnessing Three Sisters Depositing Flowers on the Grave of a Friend, in St. Ann’s Cemetery, Middletown, Delaware.

       Merry May.

Preface.

       Table of Contents

      This volume owes its existence to the desire of some of the teachers and pupils of the public schools in the northeastern part of Cecil county, to do honor to the memory of the late School Commissioner David Scott. Shortly after Mr. Scott’s death, some of the parties referred to, proposed to collect enough money by voluntary contributions to erect a monument over his grave, in order to perpetuate his memory, and also to show the high regard in which he was held by them. This project being brought to the knowledge of the editor, he ventured to express the opinion that the best monument Mr. Scott could have, would be the collection and publication of his poems in book form. This suggestion met the approbation of the originators of the project, who asked the writer to undertake the work of collecting the poems and