The Cornflower, and Other Poems

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Author of Heart Songs, etc.
TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1906
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and six, by JEAN BLEWETT, at the Department of Agriculture.
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A woman with a heart of gold I heard her called before I knew How noble was that heart and true, How full of tenderness untold. Her sympathies both broad and sure, Her one desire to do the right— Clear visioned from the inner light God gives to souls unworldly, pure. A heart of gold that loves and gives, God's almoner from day to day, Of her there is but this to say: The world is better that she lives.




The day she came we were planting corn, The west eighty-acre field,— These prairie farms are great for size, And they're sometimes great for yield.
The new school-ma'am is up to the house, The chore-boy called out to me; I went in wishing anyone else Had been put in chief trustee.