E-text prepared by David Starner, Carla Foust, Suzanne Lybarger, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without notice. Printer's errors have been corrected, and the changes are listed at the end of the book. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been retained. OKLAHOMA SUNSHINE. by FREEMAN E. MILLER, Author of "Oklahoma and other Poems," "Songs from the South-West Country," etc. Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Advance Printing Company. 1905. Copyright, 1905, by Freeman E. Miller. All Rights Reserved. _The Gospel of Sunshine is the one Supreme Evangel, the Religion of Love is Mankind's most Universal Creed. They hold in their divine Baptisms the Winning of the Heart to Happiness, the Wooing of the Soul to Heaven._ _The Author._ Beginning with June 9, 1904, there was a column of verse and prose published in "The Stillwater Advance" under the caption "Oklahoma Sunshine." These were written in the moments of a busy life, amid the crowding of sterner things, and many of them found a wide circulation in the fugitive publications of the day. So many persons have offered expressions of being pleased and helped by them that they are here presented in a more permanent form. The following comprise the year from June, 1904, to June, 1905. CONTENTS. _VERSES._ PAGE. A Busy Family, 4 A Blazing Future, 185 A Contented Farmer, 19 A Date With Joy, 265 A Happy Farmer, 299 A Jolly Good Game, 18 A Little of Love, 6 All Fool's Day, 249 A Memory, 232 A Modern Love Story, 276 A New Year's Resolution, 174 A Prayer, 29 April 22, 1889-1905, 269 A Song of Green Valleys, 30 At Rest, 188 A True Hero, 181 At the End, 214 At the Turning of the Lane, 289 At the Twilight, 290 At Valentine's Day, 204 A Valentine, 207 A Welcome for Winter, 97 Away from the Winter, 222 Be Patient, 116