FOR DAILY INSPIRATION
BY
MARGARET BIRD STEINMETZ
1914
The Bible text used in this book is taken from the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible, copyright, 1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons, and is used by permission.
DEDICATED
To those who have helped
in gathering these leaves—and
to those who
may gather something from them.
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Hillis,
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Bangs, Richard Watson Gilder, Edith Thomas.
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Theodosia Garrison: My Litany.
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Charles W. Eliot: The Durable Satisfactions
of Life.
J.R. Miller.
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Will Carleton: Farm Legends.
Margaret E. Sangster: Easter Bells.
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Palmer,
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Henry van Dyke: Music and Other Poems.
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Robert Bridges: Robert Bridges’
Poems.
George Meredith: Last Poems.
James Anthony Froude: Short Studies
on Great Subjects.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Poems and
Works.
W.E. Henley: Poems.
Eugene Field: Western Verse.