My betrothed, and other poems

LIZZIE MAGIE.
If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers’ ears,
They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs;
For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own,
They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known.
Longfellow.
THE BRODIX PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1892.
Copyright, 1892,
By Lizzie Magie,
229 H St., N. E., Washington, D. C.
Scarcely eighteen years have flitted,