Reece, Mrs. George
Rhodes, Ralph
Rhodes, Thomas
Richter, Gustav
Robbins, Hortense
Roberts, Rosie
Ross, Thomas, Jr.
Russian Sonia
Rutledge, Anne
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Sayre, Johnnie
Scates, Hiram
Schirding, Albert
Schmidt, Felix
Schrœder The Fisherman
Scott, Julian
Sersmith the Dentist
Sewall, Harlan
Sharp, Percival
Shaw, “Ace”
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shope, Tennessee Claflin
Sibley, Amos
Sibley, Mrs.
Siever, Conrad
Simmons, Walter
Sissman, Dillard
Slack, Margaret Fuller
Smith, Louise
Soldiers, Many
Somers, Jonathan Swift
Somers, Judge
Sparks, Emily
Spears, Lois
Spooniad, The
Standard, W. Lloyd Garrison
Stewart, Lillian
Stoddard, Judson
T
Tanner, Robert Fulton
Taylor, Deacon
Theodore, The Poet
Thornton, English
Throckmorton, Alexander
Todd, Eugenia
Tompkins, Josiah
Trainor, the Druggist
Trevelyan, Thomas
Trimble, George
Tripp, Henry
Tubbs, Hildrup
Turner, Francis
Tutt, Oaks
U
Unknown, The
W
Wasson, John
Wasson, Rebecca
Webster, Charles
Weirauch, Adam
Weldy, “Butch”
Wertman, Elsa
Whedon, Editor
Whitney, Harmon
Wiley, Rev. Lemuel
Will, Arlo
William and Emily
Williams, Dora
Williams, Mrs.
Wilmans, Harry
Witt, Zenas
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Yee Bow
Z
Zoll, Perry
The Hill
_Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the
fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in a brawl,
One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife—
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?—
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
One died in shameful child-birth,
One of a thwarted love,
One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in the search for heart’s desire;
One after life in far-away London and Paris
Was brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag—
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked
With venerable men of the revolution?—
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
They brought them dead sons from the war,
And daughters whom life had crushed,
And their children fatherless, crying—
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where is Old Fiddler Jones
Who played with life all his ninety years,
Braving the sleet with bared breast,
Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?
Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield._
Hod Putt
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