PART I. POEMS OF PATRIOTISM

PART II. POEMS OF SENTIMENT

PART III. POEMS OF FEELING

PART IV. POEMS OF DESCRIPTION

PART V. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

BY
CROCKET McELROY.

St. Clair, Michigan.

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CHICAGO,
SCROLL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
1900.


Copyrighted, 1900,
BY CROCKET McELROY.

TO

INDEX.

Poems of Patriotism.
Our Country and Our Flag,	9
The Flag of Hobson’s Choice,	16
The Old Soldier,	21
Washington,	26
A Voice for Freedom,	29
The Reconcentrados,	31
The Celebration,	40
Ode to Ontario,	42
The United States and Canada,	44
Ode to Our Country,	45
Poems of Sentiment.
The Milk of Human Kindness,	49
The Working Girl,	52
The Wayward Girl,	56
The Rose Cure,	59
To a Snow Drop,	61
A Family Song,	63
Thanksgiving Day,	64
Parental Advice,	65
The Doctor,	67
Brotherly Love,	69
The Minister’s Wife,	70
Nothing to Say,	73
The Heart,	74
My Darling Flora’s Margaret,	75
The Rich Sweet Sound of the Human Voice,	78
The Man for the Times,	82
Poems of Feeling.
To My Soul,	87
Dear Rolla,	89
To the Memory of a Good Woman,	90
On the Death of Mrs. Maggie Blood,	91
To the Memory of Mrs. Fidelia Whitaker,	93
Braver the Sick,	95
Do not Die Tonight,	96
On the Death of Mary McElroy,	98
Address to Death,	100
To the Memory of Mrs. Hon. Justin R. Whiting,	106
Captain Archie Morrison,	109
Poems of Description.
Where the Wind Blows,	113
Ode to Lake Superior,	117
The Dundas Valley,	118
The St. Clair River,	119
Miscellaneous Poems.
Compensation,	139
Expansion,	146
Fear Not, Lorain,	148
The Teacher,	150
A Gem,	153
The China Wedding,	154
The Honest Man’s Fate,	155
Time and Tide,	156
Christmas Day,	157
Progressive Euchre,	158
The Winner,	162
A Walk by Moonlight,	163
The Painter,	165
A Doctor’s Advice,	166
Here I Am,	168
A Christmas Turkey,	169
To Mrs. Harriet S. DeLano and Her Baby,	170
For the Baby,	171
Lines on My Father,	171
Advice to a Young Poet,	172
An Acrostic,	173
Charley’s Puppy,	174
Merry Christmas,	175
Temperance,	175
The Folding Puzzle,	176
In Florence’s Album,	176
In Lizzie Leonard’s Album,	177
In Henrietta’s Album,	177
In Worthy’s Album,	178
In Flora’s Album,	178
In Etta’s Album,	179
In Grace’s Album,	179
The Gallop of Life,	180
Where Are All the People We Knew,	184
The Honest Man,	187
Beautiful Things,	189
The Nurse,	192
A Sweet Disposition,	195
The Scow Race,	197
A Happy Choice,	201
Beautiful Flowers,	203
The Value of a Friend,	204