Revealing wisdom and not chance;—

Whose hand but God’s there trace?

For what seems chance at simple gaze

The impress bears of thought,

When studied close in all their ways

Worlds cannot spring from naught.

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.:
THE MARIGOLD PRINTING COMPANY.
1894.

Copyright.
Lee Parker Dean.
1894.

To the loved parents and aunt who watched over us in the days of our childhood, and are now changed from mortal to immortal, this volume is affectionately Inscribed.