POEMS AND SONNETS
To
DOCTOR W. W. RAY
PHYSICIAN, SCIENTIST, POET, MUSICIAN
To Whom
Whether in Art or Nature
Truth is Beauty and Beauty Truth,
To Whose Appreciation and Enthusiasm I Owed my Intellectual
Awakening in Youth, and Whose Friendship and Love
have Increased That Obligation Immeasureably
as the Years have Passed,
I Dedicate these Poems
With the Affection of a Full Heart
COTTON NOE
"Then why not praise the tallow-dip, the dog irons and the crane,
The kettle singing on the coals, or hanging to a chain?"